Bill Davidow

High-Tech Industry Exec & Venture Investor (30+ years) directly involved in building pivotal Silicon Valley companies #AutonomousRevolution #SocialPhaseChange

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

#ICYMI Why have all of the major tech firms opted for utterly immoral business models? Because, under current regulatory conditions, that is what pays.

https://t.co/S1RshVXpv7

via @ProSyn

#AutonomousRevolution #SocialPhaseChange #DigitalRevolution #DigitalTransformation

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

Let’s search for ways to make those who use underpriced one-to-many communications pay for externalities. It will help the market to do its job and make the internet and virtual worlds a safer environment and better place.

https://t.co/Pmu3FDgmII

#robocalls #cybersecurity

[Geoffrey Moore @geoffreyamoore]

Exponential growth feels abstract until you apply it to biology.

Under ideal conditions, bacteria can move from a single cell to planetary scale with astonishing speed.

https://t.co/1jEsF1bNms

#Biology #Science

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

A growing number of Americans believe the capitalist and free market systems are unfair. What would great thinkers of the past, Hilaire Belloc and Friedrich Hayek, tell us to do if they were alive today?

https://t.co/N0QrnnaXtc

#UniversalBasicIncome #SelfReliance

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

If we want to help the less fortunate members of our society, we will have to come up with social and economic policies that deal with both the inflationary and deflationary challenges they are facing.

https://t.co/itJO4eReTo

#economy #inflation #AutonomousRevolution

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

The Internet causes connections to multiply and strengthen, creating a frenzy of positive feedback, which can drive people apart — not together

https://t.co/BiFCEDNFFb

[Geoffrey Moore @geoffreyamoore]

AI is becoming part of the environment to which individuals and institutions must adapt.

The people who engage with it thoughtfully will develop capabilities others will struggle to catch up with.

https://t.co/fiZOiqGmTk

#AI #Leadership

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

"#AI may boost productivity while driving down #GDP [and causing] #decliningwages, growing #EconomicInequality, less work all around..." Harvard Business Review reviews the book, The Autonomous Revolution

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#AutonomousRevolution #SocialPhaseChange

@BKpub

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

If you want to succeed in an Internet-driven, overconnected world, you must #arbitrage. If you don’t, you will become prey to those who do. But in an Internet-driven, overconnected world, arbitrage may also force us into a race to the bottom.

https://t.co/FMiuKqiQ8o

#economics

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

There’s mounting evidence that #MooresLaw applies to commodity work — labor that can be produced by many different individuals with a minimal amount of training. If this is true commodity workers are in big trouble.

https://t.co/75UTa9Ba44

#economics

[Geoffrey Moore @geoffreyamoore]

Creating order always consumes energy.

Some of that energy is inevitably lost to entropy, which is why the universe keeps cooling and change never stops.

https://t.co/UtsrkINkT7

#Physics #Philosophy

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

#ThoughtContagions, accelerated by the Internet, push economies to the brink, burst housing bubbles, and propagate unsettling, radical ideologies

https://t.co/EJa5Q3w6Dm

#ViralIdeas #HousingBubble

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

Our minds, bodies, and senses have evolved to live in one world at a time, but we’re all trying to live in two — a physical world and a virtual one.

https://t.co/ff2eZrARsI

#TechnologyAddiction

[Geoffrey Moore @geoffreyamoore]

Agentic AI will require more than powerful models.

Trust, governance, observability, explainability, and deterministic controls must become part of the architecture itself.

https://t.co/TW8rlNR826

#AI #EnterpriseAI @jtaschek @salesforce

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

#ICYMI As #ArtificialIntelligence and virtual environments change life as we know it-and take our jobs-will we end up better or worse off?

https://t.co/bQQr8M3O56

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

Just as fast-food executives have capitalized on reward circuitry in our brains, savvy Internet entrepreneurs could influence our every action.

https://t.co/RViaOv0M7A

#InternetAddiction #TechnologyAddiction #neuroscience

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

As more information is finding its way onto the Web, great swaths of our physical infrastructure are becoming obsolete. Office buildings, retail stores, air travel, lecture halls, and paper are just clunky, expensive, and low-bandwidth interconnections.

https://t.co/kXNAhCpR0I

[Geoffrey Moore @geoffreyamoore]

Trajectory is easy to understand in physics.

It becomes much harder to explain once emergence enters the picture.

https://t.co/D1n2hAPyLv

#Philosophy #Physics

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

What do many economists have in common with bookstores, newspapers, & travel agencies? They have clung to strategies that no longer work in an overconnected world. Much of the economic theory that guides government and business is out of date.

https://t.co/5c5eQyhxfF

[Bill Davidow @BillDavidow]

As the Internet multiplied and strengthened interconnections, positive feedback increasingly drove economic, financial, political, business, & social spheres, which in turn led to overconnectivity. The result is a more volatile and less predictable economy
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