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On the other hand, blockchains make it easy to assign property rights at a granular level (ownership of single lines of code) and automatically compensate the owners of said rights whenever their "assets" are being used.

Multiplayer mode may be democratizing in enabling user-generated finance, but it will only be empowering if it gives people the resource and access to good teams. Whether that can happen remains one of the most important questions of our current technological revolution.

What to watch: Now telecom companies are interested in bundling broadband service with over-the-top video services, but will need to offer a compelling value-add to consumers who are now used to buying services a-la-carte.

We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we

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There were two major pieces of native functionality that have been left out up until recently - payments and state.

On mobile, Google still has to pony up $5-10B per year (and rising) to remain the default search engine on iOS.