London | April 2022
'To those with no love of individual freedom, it opens up seductive new vistas for control, manipulation and oppression. And who owns the data? Who has access to the data? And, is it ethical to chip people like we do pets?'
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Online | March 2022
The 20th century model of the centralized enterprise will be replaced from the bottom up by loosely coupled, self-organizing distributed networks of companies, teams and independent professionals combining their economic output to provide products and services and create value.
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Online | May 2022
'On March 23, 2019, the same day Conte signed Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative, Italy’s Health Minister, M5S member Giulia Grillo, signed a Plan of Action on Health Cooperation between Italy and China, binding Italy to cooperation with China ...'
New York | April 2022
'In my mind, if Web3 works right — if we can do it the right way — it is the best of both worlds of Web1 and Web2.'
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Online | March 2021
'More places used to look and feel like this. A hundred years ago, every American city had manufacturing mixed in; today, nearly all of it is either relocated or gone ...'
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New York | April 2022
'ESG, powered by so-called stakeholder capitalism, is “a deeply political … hate factory,” one explicitly designed to allow the most influential CEOs to use other people’s capital to play the role of unelected, unappointed economic and social czars ...'
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Online | April 2022
'Theoretically, if you tell a self-driving car to navigate from point A to point B, it could just smash its way to its destination, regardless of the cars, pedestrians or buildings it destroys on its way.'
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Online | November 2021
'The cities and nations we exist in today were built with the absence of the new technology and innovations we have now. Building something from scratch releases us of the constraints from what was built in the past ...'
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London | April 2022
'Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes.'
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Online | March 2022
Central planning always fails miserably. Massive data collection and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will not change that. Bottom-up collaboration between free people will create the future. The global superpower in the emerging post-Bretton Woods new world order will be the decentralized, distributed independents.
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Online | March 2022
Open innovation is a more distributed, decentralized approach to innovation. No company could innovate effectively on its own. The winners in business will be those that combine knowledge and ideas from many different sources. Secrecy, barriers and restrictions are bad for business. Open innovation requires open debate and free speech.
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