Dave Coplin
(N.B. Updated to the "yes, and" frame, following conversations at Info-Tech Vegas 2026) That was entirely the point, the purpose, and it’s also likely why most of us chose this career. But perhaps most...
Dave Coplin
It is 1993. I am working for one of the world’s largest professional services firms, and the way we share information between our office and our clients is by carrying hard drives back and forth on the...
Dave Coplin
Think about how that happened. Before the industrial era, most people were compensated for what they produced - an artefact made, a crop harvested, a service rendered. The outcome was the measure. Then...
Dave Coplin
That’s Pablo Picasso, being interviewed about computers in mid-1960s Paris. The machines he was talking about bear almost no resemblance to what sits on your desk today - but his observation is more accurate...
Dave Coplin
Let me explain what I mean by that - because it’s not a metaphor. It’s a precise diagnosis of what went wrong, and when. The Industrial Revolution gave us something genuinely extraordinary: scale. For...
Dave Coplin
This is a story from a project I was loosely involved in during my time at Microsoft - long before generative AI, back when machine vision was the frontier. Microsoft Research were working with an oncologist...