Category: Viodi View

  • Viodi View – 05/30/26

    Viodi View – 05/30/26

    Teresa McGaughey provided the big picture regarding AI and automation at the Tech Perspectives with the Broadband Forum “It’s [AI] helping us be better. And that’s the same thing that Google did with their protein folding, is they did what couldn’t be done by humans without the AI. So that’s going to help fuel economic…

  • Viodi View – 04/25/26

    Viodi View – 04/25/26

    Umwelt – a word that German biologist Jakob von Uexküll uses to describe the perceptual world of biological organisms. It is the theme of Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World. His book explores the different ways living beings, whether plants, insects, or animals, sense, think, and act. It is no wonder that Professor Kornhauser recommended…

  • Viodi View – 03/28/26

    Viodi View – 03/28/26

    Quality of Experience – what does it mean in the context of broadband networks? Does it mean meeting certain technical specifications around attributes like speed, latency, and loss? Does it mean reliability? Or, does it mean other things that are not necessarily technical in nature, but more about basic business building blocks that are measured…

  • Viodi View – 02/28/26

    Viodi View – 02/28/26

    AI agents create content from the online and real-world zeitgeist. This is one of the epiphanies from a thirty-second music creation experiment. See the Korner for more details on that ViodiTV experiment. But first, we will focus on a key leader in the rural broadband industry. This leader has been prominent for the past couple…

  • Viodi View – 01/24/26

    Viodi View – 01/24/26

    “Safety First.” This is the mantra for any reputable company. It applies to the protection of staff as well as the operation of a product or service. In the realm of autonomous vehicles, is safety a unique selling proposition or is it a necessary condition? Professor Kornhauser and Michael Sena argue the latter in this…

  • Viodi View – 12/31/25

    Viodi View – 12/31/25

    This New Year’s Eve addition of the Viodi View offers a glimpse of CES 2026 through some just-published interviews from CES 2025. The topics range from small modular nuclear reactors to devices that assist the visually impaired to on-demand trash pick-up. Interestingly, none of these stories deal with the consumer gadgets and devices that were…