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Software Is Reorganizing the World

When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds...

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Why Won’t Big Automakers Build the Car of the Future?

Why do major leaps forward come so rarely in the auto industry? Auto companies like to sneer at legitimately futuristic cars, calling them 'science projects' and saying consumers will never buy them. I...

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Washington Is Finally Learning That Technology Can’t Be Contained

In tech, you move fast and break stuff. In government, you try to compromise. But the yawning gulf between tech and law is slowly narrowing, thanks to a new breed of 'bridge-builders'... The post...

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American-Centric UI Is Leveling Tech Culture — and Design Diversity

Technology is a great leveler of culture, and the more engaging and embedded it becomes, the more pernicious its influence. Our interfaces spread the values of those who designed them -- whether...

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In This Silicon Valley Tech Culture and Class War, We’re Fighting About the...

The fake (Alper's fake Google employee street theater rant) felt real and the real (Gopman's rant about the homeless) felt fake because all logic has been lost in the midst of a cultural upheaval...

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The Getty and Google Unleash Free Art — And Your Creative Potential

Open sharing has been around forever, accelerating progress in diverse fields. Computing (e.g., Homebrew Computer Club), code (open source), and even academic publishing (“open access”, which goes...

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Regulating 23andMe Won’t Stop the New Age of Genetic Testing

23andMe is an example of what we call a 'big bang disruption'. Often, incumbents’ only competitive response -- or the only one they can think of -- is to run to the regulators. And when technologies...

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The Faster a New Technology Takes Off, the Harder It Falls

The familiar bell curve model for technology adoption, moving from early adopters to mainstream users, is dead. Today, everyone knows right away when some new offering gets it right or wrong. This new...

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Colleges Need to Act Like Startups — Or Risk Becoming Obsolete

The Golden Age of universities may be dead, but while much of the commentary around the disruption of education focuses on MOOCs and how universities will balance commercial relevance and basic...

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Tomorrow’s Apps Will Come From Brilliant (And Risky) Bitcoin Code

A variety of new applications have adapted the bitcoin protocol to fulfill different purposes; the latest is Ethereum. These platforms all rely on decentralized architectures to build and maintain...

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