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) [...]
tal como aparece en "Conversaciones con Mies van der Rohe", de Ed. Gustavo Gili, ed. Moisés Puente) La tecnología tiene sus raíces en el pasado.Domina el presente y tiende al futuro.Es un verdadero movimiento histórico;uno de los grandes movimientos que dan forma yrepresentan su época.Sólo puede compararse con el descubrimiento clásicodel hombre como persona,con la [...]
Exponential View #174 – Dept of quantum computingBCG reportGiven the large potential of quantum computing, the actual investment levels are low (with one exception, see at the end of this). We reckon, from a rough LinkedIn count, that fewer than 2,000 people are involved in companies working in any part of the quantum stack (and [...]
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 [...]