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Digital transformation #mindcandy 20 May 2025
Today’s topics are floppy disks, business intelligence, legacy systems, conscious AI, HR, synthetic molecules, software engineering and cybersecurity and IoT.
The floppygeddon cometh: time’s running out for businesses to ditch the floppy disk
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/the-floppygeddon-cometh
The technology is not totally obsolete. Factory and healthcare equipment, planes, trains and air-traffic control systems built in the 1990s often still rely on floppy disks for important system updates.
The Analytics Revolution: How Autonomous AI Agents are Redefining Business Intelligence
Yesterday’s analytics told you what happened, today’s agents tell you what is happening, and tomorrow’s will tell you what should happen next.
How to Make Your Legacy Systems Part of Your Real-Time AI Efforts
https://www.rtinsights.com/how-to-make-your-legacy-systems-part-of-your-real-time-ai-efforts/
It’s tempting to view legacy systems as barriers to innovation, but they can become part of a powerful hybrid future with the right architecture. Building bridges that let legacy systems and AI collaborate without compromise is key.
The illusion of conscious AI
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/the-illusion-of-conscious-ai/
The closer you look at the brain, the less like a computer it seems. There is no clean division between “mindware” and “wetware” as there is between hardware and software in our silicon devices, and even a single neuron is a vastly complex biological factory.
Why your HR team needs a data makeover – now
The days of HR relying on instinct alone are over. People analytics and AI are revolutionising how organisations attract, manage, and retain talent.
Synthetic molecules encode and decode 11-character password using electrical signals
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-synthetic-molecules-encode-decode-character.html
Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time-consuming.
Unlocking high software engineering pace: Drive adoption of AI
https://dev.jimgrey.net/2025/05/09/unlocking-high-engineering-pace-drive-adoption-of-ai/
AI tools are already delivering measurable productivity gains in software engineering. Here’s how you can unlock those gains on your teams while overcoming any resistance you may encounter and managing risks specific to this tooling.
Growing Cyberthreats To The Internet Of Things
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckbrooks/2025/05/18/growing-cyberthreats-to-the-internet-of-things/
Proactive cybersecurity is needed to address vulnerabilities in the growing connectivity of both the digital and physical ecosystems constituting IoT.
