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www.boundary2.org
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| | | | | a review of George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Regnery, 2018) by David Gerard George Gilder is most famous as a conservative author and speechwriter. He also knows his stuff about technology, and has a few things to say. But what he has to... | |
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speedbird.wordpress.com
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| | | | | OK, you got me. You knew I couldn't go for very long without having some kind of outlet for random thoughts and personal opinions. To paraphrase Forest Whitaker in The Crying Game - and boy, does that date me - expressing same is in my nature. So forgive me if I go back on my... | |
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steveblank.com
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| | | | | At $5.2-billion Iridium was one of the largest, boldest and audacious startup bets ever made. Conceived in 1987 by Motorolaand spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. It would cover every city, town and square inch of the earth from... | |
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greenido.wordpress.com
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| | | In the fascinating realm of cryptocurrency, few names carry as much weight as Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious figure behind the creation of Bitcoin. I did a short video about it a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN7cmfoH06w&list=PLOU2XLYxmsIJ6j7lT1xoqANWEJd-YbZqI&index=2 Satoshi's contributions revolutionized how we perceive and engage with (digital) currency, yet much about this enigmatic persona remains mysterious.Among the... | ||