Fiji's Mutinous Digital Waves
Introduction The overarching metaphor of my new book , The Widening Turn: America & the Accelerating Sweep of Innovation , is the United...
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Stephen Loynd
Jun 12, 20235 min read
Sweeney Astray? (Nesting in a Synergistic Ecosystem)
cracked bell hoarding grace since the first saint rang it – it will curse you to the trees, bird-brain among branches. – From, Sweeney...
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Stephen Loynd
May 26, 20237 min read
Eating Innovation (a Cautionary Tale)
I was clearly in a strange country but all the doubts and perplexities which strewed my mind could not stop me from feeling happy and...
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Stephen Loynd
Jan 25, 20238 min read
Code Red: Watching our AI Revolution
The Tsar had fallen. It was an event of gigantic significance, and yet, neither in Russia nor abroad was the significance more than dimly...
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Stephen Loynd
Dec 9, 20225 min read
Quest for Fire
As 2022 winds to a close, the wonders of Generative AI is one of the biggest stories of the year. Our trek across AI's version of the...
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Stephen Loynd
Aug 29, 20226 min read
Metaverse Rising
The metaverse is a subject of unending debate. Nobody seems to agree on what a future metaverse might look like… or what it might mean....
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Stephen Loynd
Jul 31, 20225 min read
Startled Birds
Have you noticed how the silence of four o’clock in the morning instills in one the same kind of disquiet that inhabits the trees before...
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Stephen Loynd
Mar 2, 202214 min read
The Lowell Loop: Tech Punches a Hole in the Sky
Bizarre associations sprang into his mind like enchanted crickets. – Novelist Vereen Bell on American poet Robert Lowell I’m calling it...
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Stephen Loynd
Dec 29, 20217 min read
It’s All Going Too Fast
Is it me, or is everything moving too fast? This fledgling decade opened with Covid barreling into our consciousness, speeding across the...
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Stephen Loynd
Aug 11, 202123 min read
Prometheus Unbound: the Emerging Engagement Landscape
It’s late summer, 2021, and we’re at a turning-point in the world of consumer and employee engagement. And when a series of announcements...
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Stephen Loynd
Jul 26, 20218 min read
The Great Game: Exponential Tech’s Hidden Hand
Can anything really great grow in a short time? – Socrates to Glaucon Last month I wrote a blog featuring a skeptic’s view of the...
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Stephen Loynd
Jun 30, 20217 min read
Automation’s Future Fictions?
Most near-future fictions are boring. It’s always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy. – Haruki Murakami Earlier this...
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Stephen Loynd
May 17, 202110 min read
Alvaria: Abuzz with Ambition
Pre-Covid: The Push to Innovate the CX Increasingly intelligent systems are flickering to life across a host of customer environments....
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Stephen Loynd
Apr 28, 20217 min read
The Generals in their Labyrinth: “Outsourcing” in Mexico
Over the course of the past year, I’ve been writing a bit (here and here, for example) about what effects the pandemic might eventually...
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Stephen Loynd
Apr 26, 20218 min read
Employer Maximus: “Win the Crowd”
As enterprises continue to adapt and manage the ongoing Covid crisis, it’s important to remember that companies don’t operate in a social...
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Stephen Loynd
Apr 14, 20216 min read
BPOs in a Startup World
Last month I wrote a blog about the power of ideas to build on one another over time and influence the world, and how that kind of...
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Stephen Loynd
Mar 31, 20216 min read
Reverberations & Transformations: the Changing Soul of BPO
Lately I’ve been taking note of how many BPOs are marketing their transformation into new kinds of service providers. Earlier this month...
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Stephen Loynd
Jan 31, 20214 min read
The Game of Life
It seems as if everybody is talking about GameStop. The saga is just the latest episode in our continuing, quickening drama of...
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Stephen Loynd
Dec 31, 20205 min read
Gatsby's Return?
Goodbye, 2020. At the end of this historic and difficult year, one somewhat surprising question has been on my mind. As hard as this past...
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Stephen Loynd
Oct 31, 20207 min read
From Hobgoblin to Hero: What if Outsourcing Stepped out of the Shadows?
It’s All Hallows’ Eve, 2020, and we’re haunted by Covid19’s effects on our health and economy. As jobs are lost amid businesses’ ongoing...
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stephentloynd
Jul 2215 min read
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