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Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up
By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthinkImagining Life after Google
Reviewers of George Gilder's new book weigh inIf we have simply taken the big software, hardware, and social media companies who dominate our lives for granted, the reactions from the business world to Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy should give us a lot to think about.
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Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”Giant Google’s Vulnerable Spot
Social media are free because we are both the content and the marketHell Is a “Parasocial” Place
Where your "friends" may not even existWill AI Liberate or Enslave Developing Countries?
Perhaps that depends on who gets there first with the technologyGeorge Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay
People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.
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Tech-savvy religion scholars play with reshaping societyThe team is pessimistic about getting politicians on side and hopes to persuade policy analysts to convince the politicians to adopt the policies their model suggests instead. Wildman predicts, “We’re going to get them in the end.”
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