Dwight Eisenhower never declared, “I shall build a science city in Northern California.” Yet the military spending and space program spending that started under Eisenhower was the launching pad for Silicon Valley’s rocket. @medium: The Hidden History of How the Government Kick-Started Silicon Valley So in Silicon Valley, or the tech industry more broadly, you [...]
Switzerland is the world’s most-innovative country followed by Sweden, the United States of America, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII). Outside of Europe and North America, regional GII innovation leaders are India, South Africa, Chile, Israel and Singapore. In addition, China, Viet Nam and [...]
…La percepción de la vejez, el transcurso del tiempo, está cambiando en el planeta, sobre todo en las sociedades más desarrolladas. Es cierto que el reloj aún sigue reproduciendo, impertérrito, su tictac de injusticia. Duele, especialmente, en las mujeres. … Garner avergüenza a una sociedad en la que envejecer supone desaparecer de una cultura que equipara [...]
Adoption and application of AI technologies 18% Pioneers: Understand, adopt, and invest in AI 33% Investigators: Understand AI but have not deployed beyond pilot stages 16% Experimenters: Are piloting AI projects but still learning its relevant applications 34% Passives: No significant understanding or adoption of AI Origen: Steps to Exponential Growth in Enterprise Organizations Six [...]
& I'd dare to say that more competition is also on the way. Markets are bigger and faster than ever before. In general, software markets and businesses are 10X bigger than they were 10-15 years ago. This is due to the liquidity provided by the global internet. A company that would have been a $10-$20M [...]
…mostrar imágenes renderizadas de nuestro yo futuro influye positivamente en nuestra propensión al ahorro dedicado a la jubilación. Origen: Marketing News, citado en "Qué leemos en The Cocktail" En Behavioral Economics se estudian en profundidad toda una serie de sesgos cognitivos relacionados con estos hallazgos: el sesgo al presente (damos más peso al presente en nuestras [...]
With Greed and Cynicism, Big Tech is Fueling Inequalities in America – Monday Note, Frederic Filloux…In the end, local taxpayers will subsidize Amazon shareholders…Hi-tech firms are prominent among recent tax-break “megadeals” awarded by cities and states. Tesla’s battery factory ($1.3bn from Nevada), Foxconn’s display-screen plant in Wisconsin ($4.8bn) and Apple’s data centre in Iowa ($214m) [...]
Global governance (amongst other interesting topics in exponential view newsletter #162)Dept of states and sovereigntyThere is a notion worth revisiting: are nation states nearing their end as our preferred scale of the political and socio-economic organization? This idea lies in contrast with the “end of history” theory of modernity. I’ve found the question of evolving the nation-state fascinating [...]
via medium – The Industrial Era jobs and institutions decline towards death and the Information Era matures and blooms. The decline of the Industrial Era may have been subtler, and easy to ignore in years past.The global economy as a whole will also be in precarious place if Information Era companies do not continue to produce [...]
via @marketsmarkets According to latest research report "eHealth Market by Product (EHR, PACS & VNA, RIS, LIS, CVIS, Telehealth, eRx, HIE, Patient Portal, Medical Apps), Services (Remote Patient Monitoring, Diagnostic Services) End User (Hospitals, Home Healthcare, Payers, Pharmacy) - Global Forecast to 2023", is expected to reach USD 132.35 Billion by 2023 from USD 47.60 Billion [...]