It's easy to say how everything is going to change in 10 years, but how do you get there?
Fintech | Strategy | Product | -Other buzzwords are available-
#Microsoft gains $77bn of market cap on news they'll potentially acquire #TikTok for $50bn...
Talk about ROI.
Can they elevate the platform to the level of #YouTube and #instagram ?
https://t.co/XsjjcWQhAh
COVID has turned a nation of shoppers into a nation of online shoppers, with 8 years of #ecommerce growth in 3 months.
The cumulative effect of this will fundamentally transform retail over the next few years...
With virtually every pub and restaurant developing their own app to handle reopening during COVID there's an interesting opportunity for a WeChat style aggregator to handle ordering and payments onsite - @UberEats@JustEatUK?
R&D does not equal #innovation - in fact, less than half (44%) of the top #innovative companies are the top R&D spenders.
In a phrase - R&D turns profit into ideas, Innovation turns ideas into profit.
#ux needs to be as well thought through for an #API as it does for front end screens... particularly when you're building a product based around integration
It's an old article, but this piece on #wechat from @a16z is the perfect background to understand what #WhatsApp is trying to start with their foray into payments https://t.co/YcC7H1L8HT
I'm not concerned about the inevitability of #AI passing the #TuringTest... it'll get much more interesting when the AI fails the test on purpose.
#ThursdayThoughts
Let the machines handle the routine, let people handle the judgement. How trues is the prevailing wisdom? In the data powered world how much judgement should we be letting humans loose on?
It's probably much less than you think.
#AI#Data#FutureofWork
https://t.co/abqfI9lzE7
Will technology impact jobs? Or more importantly, will it impact your job?
Your answer probably comes down to whether you are a Bill or Ted.
Those who dismiss it out of hand need to pay heed to a cautionary tale 50 years in the making
#AI#FutureofWork https://t.co/o5LU0xW1RX
In 2013 a lab grown hamburger cost $330,000... they'll start selling in 2018/19 for $11.
World hunger and main cause of #climatechange solved in one swoop?
I bet there will be a new #food movement for "Natural Meat" https://t.co/NkFMMm1YH7