The Future of Money: AI Investors, Crowdlending, and the Death of Cash
Every day, roughly 60 percent of all market trades are made by computer. When the market turns volatile, this can climb to as high as 90 percent. Robo-advisors are increasingly making this process...
View Article7 Business Models Reshaping How We Work, Live, and Create Value
Some of the most potent innovation taking place today does not involve breakthrough technologies, but rather the creation of fundamentally new business models. For most of history, these models were...
View ArticleWork in the Age of Web 3.0
What is the future of work? Is our future one of ‘technological socialism’ (where technology is taking care of our needs)? Or will tomorrow’s workplace be completely virtualized, allowing us to hang...
View ArticleHow Advertising Will Get Way More Personal—and Then Vanish Completely
Today, less than two decades after the arrival of the internet, Google and Facebook together command more advertising dollars than all print media on the planet. In 2017, Google’s ad campaign revenue...
View ArticleFor a Bright Future of Work, We Must Get Better at Collaborating With Machines
Headline after headline tells us technological unemployment is on its way. Yet the facts tell a different story. Let’s consider the US job market: Unemployment is under four percent; There are 6.4...
View ArticleClean Water Should Be a Right, Not a Privilege. These Entrepreneurs Are...
Today, 785 million people lack access to clean drinking water. Waterborne diseases are the number one killer on Earth, claiming 3.4 million lives a year, most of them children. And by 2025, according...
View ArticleTech Must Help Restore Earth’s Biodiversity. These 5 Solutions Are a Start
The combination of climate change, deforestation, pollution, overfishing, and more have produced a biodiversity crisis. On a bad day, 200 species go extinct. If we project current rates, by century’s...
View Article3 Major Materials Science Breakthroughs—and Why They Matter for the Future
Few recognize the vast implications of materials science. To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts of energy (compared to 2kW per year...
View ArticleA Renaissance of Genomics and Drugs Is Extending Human Longevity
The causes of aging are extremely complex and unclear. But with longevity clinical trials increasing, more answers—and questions—are emerging than ever before. With the dramatic demonetization of...
View ArticleHow AI Will Make Drug Discovery Low-Cost, Ultra-Fast, and Personalized
If you had to guess how long it takes for a drug to go from an idea to your pharmacy, what would you guess? Three years? Five years? How about the cost? $30 million? $100 million? Well, here’s the...
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