A few weeks ago I wrote that boards are treating AI intelligence as a permanently scarce, permanently expensive input, and that this assumption is already cracking. A few people asked me a fair follow up question. If intelligence stops being the scarce thing, where does the scarcity actually go. It doesn’t just vanish. Someone alwaysContinue reading “Where scarcity goes when it leaves”
Author Archives: Vijay Vijayasankar
The First Permission Architecture
How Automated Underwriting Revealed the Real Bottleneck in Autonomous Systems The hardest problem with autonomous systems has never been only intelligence. It’s permission. A system can produce a decision in milliseconds. The harder question, the one that actually determines whether an organization can act on that decision, is whether anyone has redesigned liability, workflow, andContinue reading “The First Permission Architecture”
How Much of the Future Does Your Strategy Need?
Every post-mortem on a brilliant flop blames bad timing, a comforting explanation because it treats timing like weather. The vision was right, the universe just didn’t show up on schedule. Google Glass wasn’t wrong about head-mounted computing. It needed battery density, social norms, and form factor to mature at once, and Google owned none ofContinue reading “How Much of the Future Does Your Strategy Need?”
