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The global rise of NFTs has been massive, but in Africa, the ascent has been meteoric, especially in countries with burgeoning art ecosystems. Like much of the broader art world, NFTs penetrated Africa in early 2021, after Beeple’s $69.3 million sale at Christie’s in New York. In response, artists working in African cities, from established... See more

This is technology’s second philosophy, and it is orthogonal to the other: the expectation is not that the computer does your work for you, but rather that the computer enables you to do your work better and more efficiently. And, with this philosophy, comes a different take on responsibility. Pichai, in the opening of Google’s keynote,... See more

Decentralised betting is not a new concept. In fact, blockchain’s answer to it a.k.a. prediction markets have been at it for as much as 7 years with well-known projects like Gnosis, Augur and other more recent ones like Polymarket going for it. Betting/predictions is an obvious choice for decentralisation via smart-contract blockchains. But it... See more

Takeaway: Have a clear objective of what you are doing. Your customers will read between the lines.

Photoshop and NFTsAgain from The Verge:Adobe is launching a system built into Photoshop that can, among other things, help prove that the person selling an NFT is the person who made it. It’s called Content Credentials, and NFT sellers will be able to link the Adobe ID with their crypto wallet, allowing compatible NFT marketplaces to show a sort of... 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.”

Every additional customer accrued a cost, whether that be the marginal cost of serving them or the opportunity cost of not serving a different customer. Given that, it was, as Christensen noted, perfectly rational to focus on the most profitable ones.However, something else momentous happened around 20 years ago: the emergence of the Internet. As... See more