The Big Four. GAFA – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. These are the four companies that make up Big Tech. They have been dominating the technology industry, and you would be hard-pressed to find someone who hadn’t heard of every one of them. They have a combined worth of nearly $3.5 trillion, and the gap between them and mainstream media is widening. At the end … Continue reading Should Big Tech Be Broken Up?
About six years ago a study from Oxford University made the startling prediction of how in the next fifteen to twenty years 47% of US jobs are at risk of automation. With only nine to fourteen years left, will half of society’s jobs be stolen by AI? Or rather, is this just a product of our larger fear that “the robots are coming for us … Continue reading The Future of Work
Incentive schemes can solve difficult problems – or fail spectacularly. Continue reading The Cobra Effect: When it all goes wrong
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