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First order effects of inventions are easy to predict but secondary, tertiary, and n+1 effects are very hard. That’s almost laughable to say about a sector like AI where new research / startups / demos / regulations / firings / resignations / fundings are happening at light speed. Like literally there’s something mind-blowing that happens every wee... See more

How AI Will Reinvent Marketing

It would be naïve to assume that any liberal democracy (or any society) can long survive with all of its conceptual foundations gutted. Either it will collapse into civil conflict, or those foundations will be replaced brick by brick by the New Faith, until it is transformed into an unrecognizable edifice that is neither liberal nor democratic. Now... See more

N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval

Mao Keji says Americans voted for Trump because "America’s problems— social, economic and political—had become so entrenched that they could no longer be fixed by politics as usual."

He argues however that the actions of the new administration remind him of those of Khrushchev in the Soviet Union "who, in his secret speech at the 20th Congress of th

Code is cheap. Money now chases utility wrapped in taste, function sculpted with beautiful form, and technology framed in artistry

The more extreme the outcome, the less likely you can apply its lessons to your own life, because the more likely the outcome was influenced by extreme ends of luck or risk.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

It is often said that most futurists are really predicting the present. It turns out that the present is very hard to see. First the present is obscured by the noise of 8 billion lives looking for attention, and it is overwhelmed by the flashy glitter of the new. Mostly the now is obscured by our deep assumptions and prejudices which makes it very ... See more

Kevin Kelly • How to Future