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The amount of data we now access has grown far faster than the general level of data literacy in companies. Most companies have too much data, it’s stored in too many places, it’s not ‘clean’ and it’s often more confusing than helpful when it comes to what matters – making decisions with it. We need to ensure companies create centralized yet

Tom Goodwin • Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption (Kogan Page Inspire)

Competitive Moats in an Information World — Geoff Yamane

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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

But 2005 may be the year when tools for thought become a reality for people who manipulate words for a living, thanks to the release of nearly a dozen new programs all aiming to do for your personal information what Google has done for the Internet. These programs all work in slightly different ways, but they share two remarkable properties: the... See more

New York Times • Tool for Thought

Simply put, we're living in the era of abundance and curation helps combat information overload. In this context, one of my favorite case studies on the importance of curation comes from a nearly 200-year-old publisher with a legacy of breadth and depth, The Economist.

Rob Litterst • How Curation Ate the Economist

If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and

Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

Perhaps most important, artificial intelligence and biotechnology are giving humanity the power to reshape and reengineer life.

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

The point is that underlying technologies change, but, after a point, technology market shares don’t change and so they’re highly predictable.

W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium

Hommes politiques et électeurs sont à peine capables de comprendre les nouvelles technologies, à plus forte raison d’en réglementer le potentiel explosif. Depuis les années 1990, l’Internet a probablement changé le monde plus qu’aucun autre facteur ; or, ce sont des ingénieurs, plutôt que des partis politiques, qui ont conduit cette révolution.