Technology is exponential – but humans are LINEAR: Keck’s Law, Moore’s Law…Gerd’s law?
You all know Moore's law, and possibly Keck's law, see ...
You all know Moore's law, and possibly Keck's law, see ...
"America will always disappoint its most ardent detractors—and admirers. It’s a big, complicated place, and you can always find in it what you want. But the pandemic laid bare fissures that have been persistently widening. They were best described decades ago by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who wrote that America was defined by “private opulence and public squalor.” The United States has long had a dazzling private sector, but its public institutions, with a few exceptions—such as the independent, self-funded, and highly respected Federal Reserve—limp along. Washington can throw money at a problem, which often does the job eventually, but it cannot run a complex national program to serve a collective benefit. Social Security—whose job is mainly to write checks—works, while the Veterans Administration is a bloated, bureaucratic disaster... These ills of government are an American, not a democratic, disease. Many other democracies handled this pandemic effectively, better than any dictatorship. That list includes countries run by political parties of all stripes"
The adage “too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing” is true for most things that might cause us harm but that we enjoy, regardless - be it food, coffee or alcohol. Yet right now, this obvious need for responsibility and balance is particularly glaring when we consider our exponential technological progress and the increasingly dominant (some would say monopolistic) behaviour of the world’s leading tech giants
“As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, ...
under a new and decidedly more coherent political leadership, America will once again rise to a responsible and reliable global player fuelled by technology, and this will commence in early 2021.
technology regulation: too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing
“The United States is different. In nearly every other high-income ...
This is the edited version of my conversation with Christoph Steck, Telefonica Madrid, on the most important with/post-corona future scenarios also see my new page at http://www.postcoronafuture.com This video is in ENGLISH (only the intro is in Spanish). The original video is here: https://youtu.be/R59SlyTnaww Thanks to Christoph and Fundacion Telefonica for inviting me and making this recording available.
“Even before the pandemic, income inequality in the U.S. was ...
There are really two Americas right now,” said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the New York University Stern School of Business and author of “The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.” “There is Big Tech and there is everyone else. They can do what very few companies can do, which is play offense in the middle of a pandemic.”
This much is certain: The pandemic will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later.
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