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I share Professor Clayton Christensen’s consternation about the overuse of the term “disruption.” In this month’s issue of the Harvard Business Review, Christensen and his co-authors Michael Raynor and Rory McDonald write:Disruption theory is in danger of becoming a victim of its own success. Despite broad dissemination, the theory’s core concepts... See more

The State of FANGEach of the FANG companies is in a similar position in their respective industries: they haven’t so much disrupted incumbents as they have subsumed them:Facebook: The late David Carr, who first broke the news about Facebook’s Instant Articles initiative back in 2014, worried that “media companies would essentially be serfs in a... See more

Cars and the FutureA little over a year ago I explained in Cars and the Future that there were three changes happening in the personal transportation industry simultaneously:Drivetrains were changing from the internal combustion engine to electricCar operation was moving from human-based to computer-based (i.e. self-driving cars)Ownership was... See more

What are the 5 types of DAOs?There are different types of DAO. Here, we will look at the different categories that a decentralized autonomous organization can fall into, based on its mode of operation, structure, and even technology. Here is a few of them. You have probably heard some of these names:1. DeFi Protocol DAOThese DAOs use smart contract... See more

“When you have a technology in search of a use, you end up with the crap that we see out there in the enterprise today.”

Evolutionary Principles of Gaming 3.0To start with, one needs to embrace the concept that web3 games are an evolution on top of the success of web 2 games, and not a revolution that can disregard all past principles. This is the basic principle we believe will be shared between all successful web3 games.We believe that the core of web3 games is... See more

Adobe, meanwhile, has already been partnering with a multitude of companies, including media orgs, on the Content Authenticity Initiative; this is a way to ascertain what images are originals, and which have been altered — you can check the veracity of an image on a dedicated website. All of this is built using cryptography and open source tools.... See more

Key Takeaways: While web3 is ever-evolving, this bull run has shifted the dynamic for all participants.Investor allocations are decreasing. Team allocations are increasing. Airdrops have become a cornerstone of most distributions. Public Sales have all but disappeared. DAOs have shifted the majority of ownership to the Community Treasury and

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