Joseph Byrum has written many authoritative article series on a wide array of topics from food security to complexity science and artificial intelligence.
- Understanding Smart Technology and Ourselves
- Techniques for Accelerating Innovation
- Seeing Economic Collapse and Recovery Through the Lens of Complexity Economics
- Complexity, AI, and the Future of Food
- Data as Agriculture’s New Currency
- Open Innovation in Agriculture
- Rethinking the Soybean Planting Rate
Ethical Guidelines For Smart Automation: Understanding Smart Technology Part 9
From mortgage rejections you can’t appeal to self-driving crashes with no explanation—discover the ethical crisis…
Smart Automation Impact on Society: Understanding Smart Technology Part 8
Only 4 companies make advanced chips, 5 giants destroyed entire industries. Discover how tech monopolies…
Smart Machine Dangers Unknown Knowns: Understanding Smart Technology Part 7
From garage doors that killed children to cars choosing which pedestrian to hit—discover why smarter…
The Machine Mind Unknown Knowns: Understanding Smart Technology Part 6
Scientists can’t solve AI’s empathy problem. Elon Musk warns: merge with machines or become irrelevant….
The Human Mind Unknown Knowns: Understanding Smart Technology Part 5
Software bugs cost $60B annually while human DNA outperforms 100M lines of code. Discover why…
Man and Machine Known Knowns: Understanding Smart Technology Part 4
From chess masters to poker champions—discover which battles humans win vs. AI, and why cooperation…
The Human Mind Known Knowns: Understanding Smart Technology Part 3
We know a fair amount about human behavior in relation to machine and we have a…
Hardware and Software Known Knowns: Understanding Smart Technology Part 2
Discover the fundamental limitations keeping AI from true intelligence—NASA’s definition of life reveals why machines…
The Known Knowns of Smart Automation: Understanding Smart Technology Part 1
From Queen Elizabeth’s fears to million-person petitions: discover why every tech revolution sparked resistance—and why…
The OODA Loop Approach to Innovation: Techniques for Accelerating Innovation Part 3
From aerial combat to Edison’s 1,093 patents—discover the Air Force strategy that’s helping companies innovate…
Theories of Innovation: Techniques for Accelerating Innovation Part 2
From 37-game theory tournaments to crisis-driven breakthroughs—discover why innovation is actually warfare and most companies…
Why Innovation Is So Hard: Techniques for Accelerating Innovation Series Part 1
From iPhone’s S-curve trap to ‘Zoomthink’ destroying virtual teams—discover the fatal flaws killing innovation before…
Applying Complexity Economics Lessons To Recovery: Complexity Economics Series Part 5
The science of emergence has given businesses leaders the big picture of the world as holistically as…
8 More Concepts of Complexity Economics: Complexity Economics Series Part 4
From butterfly effects to clustered volatility—8 complexity economics concepts that reveal why small events trigger…
4 Primary Concepts of Complexity Economics: Complexity Economics Series Part 3
Learn the 4 core complexity economics principles including agent-based modeling and emergence that explain market…
Equilibrium vs. Nonequilibrium Views of Recovery: Complexity Economics Series Part 2
Discover why traditional equilibrium economics can’t predict recovery patterns and how nonequilibrium models outperformed Fed…
The Situation Following a Pandemic: Complexity Economics Series Part 1
COVID’s economic impact exceeds all pandemics in history. Explore why humans make economies unpredictable and…
Artificial Intelligence’s Food Security Impact: Complexity, AI and the Future of Food Part 6
From slime mold designing railways to cyborg plants—discover how nature-inspired AI will solve the world’s…
Biometrics & the Future of Food Safety: Complexity, AI & the Future of Food Part 5
From random inspections to digital fingerprints—discover how hyperspectral imaging reveals food contamination invisible to human…
Toward the Age of Agrobots: Complexity, AI & the Future of Food Part 4
From voice-activated farming to robots that speak plant language—discover how collective intelligence is revolutionizing agriculture.
Boosting Agriculture’s Climate Resilience: Complexity, AI, and the Future of Food Part 3
From $7.5B derecho storms to $300B losses in poor countries—discover how embodied AI is revolutionizing…
Thinking beyond human capabilities: Complexity, AI, and the Future of Food Part 2
Plants have secret intelligence humans can’t perceive. Discover how biomimicry and bee vision are revolutionizing…
Artificial Intelligence’s Potential for Addressing Global Food Security
Given the connection between AI and nature, it’s worth exploring how AI can help solve…
Advancing to the Next Level: Data as Agriculture’s New Currency Part 3
From fax machines to real-time sensors—discover why outdated data collection is costing farmers billions and…
The Farmer’s Perspective: Data as Agriculture’s New Currency Part 2
From worthless sales pitches to incompatible datasets—discover why farmers can’t unlock their data’s value and…
Data As Agriculture’s New Currency
From Joseph’s ancient grain strategy to today’s $4.6B agtech boom—discover why data is becoming more…
3 Pieces of Advice For Agribusiness: Part 3
Most agricultural companies won’t survive the next decade. Discover the hidden strategy that doubled our…
How Agribusinesses Can Ensure Success with Open Innovation: Part 2
Discover the hidden pitfalls of crowdsourcing that most managers miss—and the proven strategy that doubled…
The Case for Open Innovation in Agriculture: Part 1
Discover how open innovation and data analytics doubled real-world crop yields. Learn why agricultural companies…
Delay Planting 11 Days = 21,000 More Seeds (Science Data)
Scientific analysis reveals planting delays cost 1,300 seeds per day. Discover how smart variety choices…
400 Trials Reveal: Plant Before May 12 & Save 19K Seeds
Big data from 400+ trials reveals optimal soybean populations by region and date. Save 19,000…
Slash Soybean Seeds 75% & Keep Same Yield (Science Proof)
Soybean farmers waste 75% of seeds due to overplanting. Discover the 95% sunlight rule that…