This document discusses key topics related to technology progress and startups. It addresses (1) the history of rapid technological progress since the industrial revolution and signs it is slowing, (2) the importance of computer science and software in driving innovation, and (3) challenges related to achieving breakthrough "0 to 1" innovations versus incremental "1 to n" progress. It also examines reasons for startups' role in innovation and considers questions entrepreneurs should ask themselves when starting a new business.
This document provides an overview and summary of key topics from Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup class at Stanford. Some of the main points discussed include:
- Technological progress has slowed significantly since the 1960s, except in the computer industry. Computer science is thus a logical starting place to drive new progress.
- Going from 0 to 1 (innovation) is qualitatively harder than going from 1 to n (copying and scaling existing ideas). Starting a successful company requires solving the difficult problem of 0 to 1 innovation.
- Startups are important because their small size allows them to have lower coordination costs and more flexibility than larger companies or governments. However, starting a startup also carries significant financial
The document discusses how businesses need to become more agile to adapt to increasing uncertainty and disruption. It notes that the average lifespan of companies has decreased significantly and that disruption can happen more quickly. It advocates embracing uncertainty and discovering customer needs through early customer contact and problem discovery. Businesses should explore and experiment more while balancing exploration with execution through an agile approach.
The document discusses the concept of progress and how it is socially constructed. It questions whether technological advancement necessarily leads to meaningful progress or improved lives. While societies often view new technologies as progress, this view obscures the complex social networks needed to develop, produce and maintain technologies, and may cause people to overlook issues caused by certain technologies. The narrative of progress also prevents examination of alternative views of social organization and human purpose.
Why the future won't be a waste of timeJérémy Jeremy
Andrew Essex, CEO of Droga5, argues that while technology has raised consumer expectations, many areas of life remain rooted in outdated practices. He provides examples of technologies like car alarms and paper passports that waste time and are ripe for reinvention. Essex believes digital innovation will continue optimizing how people spend their time by solving problems rather than just selling and making lives more efficient.
This document provides an overview of different macroeconomic models through interviews and discussions. It begins by introducing some key failures of the current financial system and then discusses the Anglo-Saxon capitalist model and Rijnland model that have influenced Western Europe. It contrasts characteristics like individualism versus collectivism. The document also references different economic models in Asia and Brazil. It concludes by discussing potential future models that move beyond financial capitalism towards more sustainable and community-oriented systems.
This document discusses how to thrive in disruptive times. It explains that disruption unbundles industries and evaporates the middle. However, this also creates opportunities for those who are small, nimble, and able to create their own platforms and connections. The document provides strategies for individuals, businesses, cities, and economies to not just survive disruption but thrive, such as developing soft skills like lifelong learning and collaboration. It emphasizes that the future is unpredictable and exponential, so new models are needed for work, education, and life.
Unbundling (Your) Work: Our Careers in a Future of Robots & AIGary A. Bolles
Talk delivered at Singularity University's inaugural Exponential Manufacturing conference, May 2016, by Gary A. Bolles, o-founder, eParachute.com, and Partner, Charrette LLC
The Diversity Dilemma - Supporting our Sisters in STEMDiUS
The document discusses improving gender diversity in STEM fields. It describes an intervention program that led to more girls scoring in the top 15 on standardized science tests. It profiles historic female pioneers in STEM and notes the underrepresentation of women today. Barriers to diversity discussed include unconscious bias, lack of role models, and girls opting out of STEM careers early. Suggestions are provided for improving diversity, such as internal initiatives, awareness raising, emphasizing connections between STEM and real-world problems, and serving as role models.
This document provides an overview and summary of key topics from Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup class at Stanford. Some of the main points discussed include:
- Technological progress has slowed significantly since the 1960s, except in the computer industry. Computer science is thus a logical starting place to drive new progress.
- Going from 0 to 1 (innovation) is qualitatively harder than going from 1 to n (copying and scaling existing ideas). Starting a successful company requires solving the difficult problem of 0 to 1 innovation.
- Startups are important because their small size allows them to have lower coordination costs and more flexibility than larger companies or governments. However, starting a startup also carries significant financial
The document discusses how businesses need to become more agile to adapt to increasing uncertainty and disruption. It notes that the average lifespan of companies has decreased significantly and that disruption can happen more quickly. It advocates embracing uncertainty and discovering customer needs through early customer contact and problem discovery. Businesses should explore and experiment more while balancing exploration with execution through an agile approach.
The document discusses the concept of progress and how it is socially constructed. It questions whether technological advancement necessarily leads to meaningful progress or improved lives. While societies often view new technologies as progress, this view obscures the complex social networks needed to develop, produce and maintain technologies, and may cause people to overlook issues caused by certain technologies. The narrative of progress also prevents examination of alternative views of social organization and human purpose.
Why the future won't be a waste of timeJérémy Jeremy
Andrew Essex, CEO of Droga5, argues that while technology has raised consumer expectations, many areas of life remain rooted in outdated practices. He provides examples of technologies like car alarms and paper passports that waste time and are ripe for reinvention. Essex believes digital innovation will continue optimizing how people spend their time by solving problems rather than just selling and making lives more efficient.
This document provides an overview of different macroeconomic models through interviews and discussions. It begins by introducing some key failures of the current financial system and then discusses the Anglo-Saxon capitalist model and Rijnland model that have influenced Western Europe. It contrasts characteristics like individualism versus collectivism. The document also references different economic models in Asia and Brazil. It concludes by discussing potential future models that move beyond financial capitalism towards more sustainable and community-oriented systems.
This document discusses how to thrive in disruptive times. It explains that disruption unbundles industries and evaporates the middle. However, this also creates opportunities for those who are small, nimble, and able to create their own platforms and connections. The document provides strategies for individuals, businesses, cities, and economies to not just survive disruption but thrive, such as developing soft skills like lifelong learning and collaboration. It emphasizes that the future is unpredictable and exponential, so new models are needed for work, education, and life.
Unbundling (Your) Work: Our Careers in a Future of Robots & AIGary A. Bolles
Talk delivered at Singularity University's inaugural Exponential Manufacturing conference, May 2016, by Gary A. Bolles, o-founder, eParachute.com, and Partner, Charrette LLC
The Diversity Dilemma - Supporting our Sisters in STEMDiUS
The document discusses improving gender diversity in STEM fields. It describes an intervention program that led to more girls scoring in the top 15 on standardized science tests. It profiles historic female pioneers in STEM and notes the underrepresentation of women today. Barriers to diversity discussed include unconscious bias, lack of role models, and girls opting out of STEM careers early. Suggestions are provided for improving diversity, such as internal initiatives, awareness raising, emphasizing connections between STEM and real-world problems, and serving as role models.
The document summarizes notes from a lecture on Silicon Valley trends. It discusses [1] the "Paypal mafia" and their successful ventures after Paypal, [2] elements that contribute to success in Silicon Valley like mobility and networking, [3] social entrepreneurship areas like microfinance and cooperatives, [4] how social media companies succeed, and [5] green companies and trends in Silicon Valley toward social enterprises and cleantech. Questions from attendees are also summarized around topics like defining social media, reasons for Silicon Valley's success compared to other regions, and impacts of failures and telework.
This document discusses five timeless strategy rules that Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs followed based on a study of their leadership and business success.
The five rules are: 1) look forward and reason back, 2) make big bets without betting the company, 3) build platforms and ecosystems not just products, 4) exploit leverage and power, and 5) shape the company around your personal anchor. Each leader had a different personal anchor of strengths they built their companies around. They also learned to compensate for weaknesses by hiring others with complementary skills.
The document analyzes how each leader applied these rules through their visions and strategies for Microsoft, Intel, and Apple based on anticipating technological changes from Moore's Law
eToro startup & mgnt 2.0 course - Class 18 back to the futureEstrella Demonte
There are four areas where the future has failed to live up to past expectations: energy storage, weather, robotics, and space. For energy storage, batteries have improved but face limits, so alternatives like compressed air storage are promising. Weather prediction and control were expected to advance more than they have. Robotics has progressed but not to the level of human-like robots envisioned in the past. Space exploration has also stagnated compared to past visions. However, some companies are taking new approaches in these areas, like using physics instead of chemistry for energy storage, precise weather prediction for agriculture, robots for dangerous situations, and private space exploration. Revisiting past ideas through new perspectives could help develop technologies in ways the past did
It's Not About Technology (pdf with Notes)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at Velocity 2015 Optimized Business Day. I talk about the imperative to use technology to empower workers, not replace them. This isn't just for highly paid knowledge workers. Finding ways to put everyone to work productively is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Bonus: a great segment from Steven Vincent Benet's poem John Brown's Body.
The document proposes a radical new approach to child education called "Born Limitless" that aims to achieve a 10x improvement. It argues that current education systems are inadequate given rapid technological changes. Born Limitless would provide resources for 20 self-taught 11-14 year olds to achieve their limitless potential, with access to cutting-edge tech and mentors. The goal is to reinvent upper limits of child education and catalyze a new educational paradigm through an initial pioneer program located in the Bay Area. Funding from philanthropic "whatever it takes" partners would be required to make this vision a reality.
The document discusses several topics:
1. The author has missed out on several technological revolutions including the personal computer, GUI, web, and Web 2.0 revolutions.
2. Web 2.0 valuations of companies like Facebook have reached billions but a crash may be coming due to an economic downturn and rising inflation.
3. To prepare for future revolutions, one must study, sacrifice, and work hard. Finding early employees who are highly motivated is also important for startup success.
1. This document summarizes notes from Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup class at Stanford. It discusses the history of technology and economic growth slowing in recent decades.
2. It argues that computer science offers a model for progress due to continued growth under Moore's Law. However, achieving "vertical" innovation from 0 to 1 is more difficult than scaling existing technologies from 1 to n.
3. The challenges of vertical progress include exceptionalism, the difficulty of teaching innovation, and the indeterminism of success for unprecedented ventures versus statistical analysis of scaling existing ideas. The future of technology growth remains uncertain between theories of convergence, cycles, collapse, or singularity.
This summary provides the key points from Peter Thiel's CS183 startup class notes in 3 sentences:
The notes discuss the challenges of facilitating technological progress through startups, noting that while copying existing ideas on a large scale is easier, creating truly new innovations requires determining what is valuable, determining what skills one has to create something novel that no one else is doing in order to cross the difficult barrier from concept to realized product. The class aims to help students integrate an understanding of both the macro trends in technology as well as the micro skills needed to successfully start new companies that can drive future innovations.
The 1990s are often remembered nostalgically, but the decade started with an economic recession. The release of the Mosaic browser in 1993 and Netscape Navigator in 1994 helped popularize the commercial internet. This led to a technology stock bubble from 1995-1999, as internet companies went public with sky-high valuations despite little revenue or profits. While skepticism was understandable, the conventional view that the market had "gone crazy" overlooks how transformative the internet was becoming.
1. After World War 2, engineers became important managers as their rational problem-solving skills were well-suited to rebuilding the war-torn industrial sector. However, as technology advanced with the internet and new industries emerged, leadership required different skills beyond just analytical intelligence.
2. In the current era, creativity has become the driving force for economic growth. Future leaders will need strong relational and emotional intelligence to understand people, collaborate in teams, and adapt to constant change. They can no longer rely solely on analytical and mathematical skills.
3. To succeed as leaders tomorrow, people will need a combination of different types of intelligence beyond just IQ. Tomorrow's leaders will be oriented toward others, well-rounded
How To Deal With Disruption and How To Thrive In A Disruptive AgeFahri Karakas
We live in interesting and accelerated times. No professional today, whether in the public or private sector, can afford to be unaware of the pace of changes surrounding them. The pace of business change happening around us is relentless. The global forces of competition, innovation, and new technologies are creating new markets while eliminating others.
Multidimensional technological forces involving automation, 3D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, Industry 4.0, internet of things, and blockchain are rapidly transforming the future of work, organizations, and jobs.
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Developments in machine learning, robotics, nanotech, biotech, and 3D printing are all building on and amplifying one another. Technology is disruptive and it keeps transforming workplaces, business practices, and work processes. Companies are trying hard to survive — the only way to survive is to adapt, change, and innovate fast.
Companies are hungrier for smart ideas and innovations than ever before because they know they will go extinct unless they learn, improve, evolve, accelerate, and create constantly.
89% of Fortune 500 companies from 1955 are not on the list in 2014. The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 was 67 years old in the 1920s. Right now this age is 15 years only and it keeps going down. In 2028, 40% of all S&P 500 companies are expected to disappear from this list. Similarly, 75% of S&P 500 firms are estimated to be replaced within 15 years.
In 1996, Kodak had nearly 150 thousand employees and $28 billion market cap. In 2008, the whole market was gone. The invention of digital cameras eliminated traditional camera businesses. A company that is not trying to disrupt itself is destined to be disrupted.
We are experiencing a digital revolution and the industrial paradigm is over. Mass production is becoming obsolete and 3D printers are replacing factories. Companies work in virtual networks and remote work is the order of the day.
Products are bought on demand and they are customized by default. We do not need huge scales of economy, organization charts, hierarchies, factories, standardized exams, or large production floors anymore.
We do not need cable TV, mass-market, and broadcast advertising. We are now experiencing a borderless, democratized, digital world where each individual can have a huge impact.
We can now create our own game in this world. We can design games, create our own blogs or podcasts or YouTube channel or raise funds on Kickstarter. We can write a book and explain ourselves to the world. We can create fresh and exciting digital products (training, courses, etc.) We live in a world where ideas can change people’s lives. This means all of us can create our own game.
It is impossible to imagine that the skills needed at work will remain the same in the new decade. The world is changing fast and we need to learn, re-invent, and disrupt ourselves every day.
The following document was elaborated by InPeople Consulting & UpsideRisks as a consecuence of the participation at the Conference Exponential Finance and their own research.
The document discusses artificial and human intelligence and which will drive future innovation. It begins with the author's experience riding in a prototype driverless car in Singapore that almost veered into an oncoming truck. The author suggests that while technology is developing quickly, human intelligence will be needed to properly develop innovations and solve problems. New technologies risk amplifying one another in ways that could negatively impact jobs and society if not developed with intent to augment human capabilities rather than replace them. The future remains uncertain but smart companies will use innovation to boost rather than replace human intelligence.
Entrpreneurship- Transforming the global economyManish Jena
Entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy in three key ways: 1) They enhance competition and dynamism by continuously changing the shape of the world economy; 2) They help assimilate new technologies that fuel economic growth, as evidenced by the rise of companies like Microsoft and Google; 3) Entrepreneurship provides opportunities that support freedom and job creation around the world.
The document discusses technology and software development in 2024 and beyond. It considers what new programming languages, paradigms and frameworks may exist, and whether the goals of developers will have changed from a focus on innovation and changing the world to more trivial goals like success and profit. The document advocates that as developers, we should acknowledge societal problems and use our skills to help create a better society for all, rather than just seeing what new technologies we can create without considering if we should. We are encouraged to look to the future and ask "why", not just "what" or "how".
The article discusses the role of human and artificial intelligence in driving future innovation. It describes how some see AI and automation as replacing human jobs, while others argue this could augment human abilities. The author believes smart companies will use new technologies to enhance rather than replace human intelligence. This could unlock new innovations to solve global problems through distributed technologies empowering individuals. Overall, the direction of travel matters more than speed, and human intent will shape how AI amplifies our goals.
I Was A Guest Lecturer at Yeditepe University MBA Program in TurkeyFahri Karakas
Dr. Gulzhanat Tayauova has invited me to her MBA class at Yeditepe University.
I presented on "Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation". It was an intense lecture, a bit long, but I ended up covering a lot of topics from blockchain to Metaverse.
You can find the slides of this presentation.
Enjoy!
A glimpse into the world of Gen Z - an 8 page Gen Z Manifesto that summarizes the upcoming book, The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of Business, available 11/11/14 at bookstores everywhere. Written by Dan Keldsen and Thomas Koulopoulos.
Who is Gen Z? What makes them tick? What is an accident of birth, and a purposeful decision?
Are YOU Gen Z?
Spot the Future is a project to figure out what is happening at the edge of change in Armenia, Egypt and Georgia. It is a collaboration between UNDP-CIS Innovation Unit and Edgeryders. In this presentation I explain why we do it, how we do it, and some early results.
The document summarizes notes from a lecture on Silicon Valley trends. It discusses [1] the "Paypal mafia" and their successful ventures after Paypal, [2] elements that contribute to success in Silicon Valley like mobility and networking, [3] social entrepreneurship areas like microfinance and cooperatives, [4] how social media companies succeed, and [5] green companies and trends in Silicon Valley toward social enterprises and cleantech. Questions from attendees are also summarized around topics like defining social media, reasons for Silicon Valley's success compared to other regions, and impacts of failures and telework.
This document discusses five timeless strategy rules that Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs followed based on a study of their leadership and business success.
The five rules are: 1) look forward and reason back, 2) make big bets without betting the company, 3) build platforms and ecosystems not just products, 4) exploit leverage and power, and 5) shape the company around your personal anchor. Each leader had a different personal anchor of strengths they built their companies around. They also learned to compensate for weaknesses by hiring others with complementary skills.
The document analyzes how each leader applied these rules through their visions and strategies for Microsoft, Intel, and Apple based on anticipating technological changes from Moore's Law
eToro startup & mgnt 2.0 course - Class 18 back to the futureEstrella Demonte
There are four areas where the future has failed to live up to past expectations: energy storage, weather, robotics, and space. For energy storage, batteries have improved but face limits, so alternatives like compressed air storage are promising. Weather prediction and control were expected to advance more than they have. Robotics has progressed but not to the level of human-like robots envisioned in the past. Space exploration has also stagnated compared to past visions. However, some companies are taking new approaches in these areas, like using physics instead of chemistry for energy storage, precise weather prediction for agriculture, robots for dangerous situations, and private space exploration. Revisiting past ideas through new perspectives could help develop technologies in ways the past did
It's Not About Technology (pdf with Notes)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at Velocity 2015 Optimized Business Day. I talk about the imperative to use technology to empower workers, not replace them. This isn't just for highly paid knowledge workers. Finding ways to put everyone to work productively is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Bonus: a great segment from Steven Vincent Benet's poem John Brown's Body.
The document proposes a radical new approach to child education called "Born Limitless" that aims to achieve a 10x improvement. It argues that current education systems are inadequate given rapid technological changes. Born Limitless would provide resources for 20 self-taught 11-14 year olds to achieve their limitless potential, with access to cutting-edge tech and mentors. The goal is to reinvent upper limits of child education and catalyze a new educational paradigm through an initial pioneer program located in the Bay Area. Funding from philanthropic "whatever it takes" partners would be required to make this vision a reality.
The document discusses several topics:
1. The author has missed out on several technological revolutions including the personal computer, GUI, web, and Web 2.0 revolutions.
2. Web 2.0 valuations of companies like Facebook have reached billions but a crash may be coming due to an economic downturn and rising inflation.
3. To prepare for future revolutions, one must study, sacrifice, and work hard. Finding early employees who are highly motivated is also important for startup success.
1. This document summarizes notes from Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup class at Stanford. It discusses the history of technology and economic growth slowing in recent decades.
2. It argues that computer science offers a model for progress due to continued growth under Moore's Law. However, achieving "vertical" innovation from 0 to 1 is more difficult than scaling existing technologies from 1 to n.
3. The challenges of vertical progress include exceptionalism, the difficulty of teaching innovation, and the indeterminism of success for unprecedented ventures versus statistical analysis of scaling existing ideas. The future of technology growth remains uncertain between theories of convergence, cycles, collapse, or singularity.
This summary provides the key points from Peter Thiel's CS183 startup class notes in 3 sentences:
The notes discuss the challenges of facilitating technological progress through startups, noting that while copying existing ideas on a large scale is easier, creating truly new innovations requires determining what is valuable, determining what skills one has to create something novel that no one else is doing in order to cross the difficult barrier from concept to realized product. The class aims to help students integrate an understanding of both the macro trends in technology as well as the micro skills needed to successfully start new companies that can drive future innovations.
The 1990s are often remembered nostalgically, but the decade started with an economic recession. The release of the Mosaic browser in 1993 and Netscape Navigator in 1994 helped popularize the commercial internet. This led to a technology stock bubble from 1995-1999, as internet companies went public with sky-high valuations despite little revenue or profits. While skepticism was understandable, the conventional view that the market had "gone crazy" overlooks how transformative the internet was becoming.
1. After World War 2, engineers became important managers as their rational problem-solving skills were well-suited to rebuilding the war-torn industrial sector. However, as technology advanced with the internet and new industries emerged, leadership required different skills beyond just analytical intelligence.
2. In the current era, creativity has become the driving force for economic growth. Future leaders will need strong relational and emotional intelligence to understand people, collaborate in teams, and adapt to constant change. They can no longer rely solely on analytical and mathematical skills.
3. To succeed as leaders tomorrow, people will need a combination of different types of intelligence beyond just IQ. Tomorrow's leaders will be oriented toward others, well-rounded
How To Deal With Disruption and How To Thrive In A Disruptive AgeFahri Karakas
We live in interesting and accelerated times. No professional today, whether in the public or private sector, can afford to be unaware of the pace of changes surrounding them. The pace of business change happening around us is relentless. The global forces of competition, innovation, and new technologies are creating new markets while eliminating others.
Multidimensional technological forces involving automation, 3D printing, augmented reality, machine learning, Industry 4.0, internet of things, and blockchain are rapidly transforming the future of work, organizations, and jobs.
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. Developments in machine learning, robotics, nanotech, biotech, and 3D printing are all building on and amplifying one another. Technology is disruptive and it keeps transforming workplaces, business practices, and work processes. Companies are trying hard to survive — the only way to survive is to adapt, change, and innovate fast.
Companies are hungrier for smart ideas and innovations than ever before because they know they will go extinct unless they learn, improve, evolve, accelerate, and create constantly.
89% of Fortune 500 companies from 1955 are not on the list in 2014. The average age of a company listed on the S&P 500 was 67 years old in the 1920s. Right now this age is 15 years only and it keeps going down. In 2028, 40% of all S&P 500 companies are expected to disappear from this list. Similarly, 75% of S&P 500 firms are estimated to be replaced within 15 years.
In 1996, Kodak had nearly 150 thousand employees and $28 billion market cap. In 2008, the whole market was gone. The invention of digital cameras eliminated traditional camera businesses. A company that is not trying to disrupt itself is destined to be disrupted.
We are experiencing a digital revolution and the industrial paradigm is over. Mass production is becoming obsolete and 3D printers are replacing factories. Companies work in virtual networks and remote work is the order of the day.
Products are bought on demand and they are customized by default. We do not need huge scales of economy, organization charts, hierarchies, factories, standardized exams, or large production floors anymore.
We do not need cable TV, mass-market, and broadcast advertising. We are now experiencing a borderless, democratized, digital world where each individual can have a huge impact.
We can now create our own game in this world. We can design games, create our own blogs or podcasts or YouTube channel or raise funds on Kickstarter. We can write a book and explain ourselves to the world. We can create fresh and exciting digital products (training, courses, etc.) We live in a world where ideas can change people’s lives. This means all of us can create our own game.
It is impossible to imagine that the skills needed at work will remain the same in the new decade. The world is changing fast and we need to learn, re-invent, and disrupt ourselves every day.
The following document was elaborated by InPeople Consulting & UpsideRisks as a consecuence of the participation at the Conference Exponential Finance and their own research.
The document discusses artificial and human intelligence and which will drive future innovation. It begins with the author's experience riding in a prototype driverless car in Singapore that almost veered into an oncoming truck. The author suggests that while technology is developing quickly, human intelligence will be needed to properly develop innovations and solve problems. New technologies risk amplifying one another in ways that could negatively impact jobs and society if not developed with intent to augment human capabilities rather than replace them. The future remains uncertain but smart companies will use innovation to boost rather than replace human intelligence.
Entrpreneurship- Transforming the global economyManish Jena
Entrepreneurs are transforming the global economy in three key ways: 1) They enhance competition and dynamism by continuously changing the shape of the world economy; 2) They help assimilate new technologies that fuel economic growth, as evidenced by the rise of companies like Microsoft and Google; 3) Entrepreneurship provides opportunities that support freedom and job creation around the world.
The document discusses technology and software development in 2024 and beyond. It considers what new programming languages, paradigms and frameworks may exist, and whether the goals of developers will have changed from a focus on innovation and changing the world to more trivial goals like success and profit. The document advocates that as developers, we should acknowledge societal problems and use our skills to help create a better society for all, rather than just seeing what new technologies we can create without considering if we should. We are encouraged to look to the future and ask "why", not just "what" or "how".
The article discusses the role of human and artificial intelligence in driving future innovation. It describes how some see AI and automation as replacing human jobs, while others argue this could augment human abilities. The author believes smart companies will use new technologies to enhance rather than replace human intelligence. This could unlock new innovations to solve global problems through distributed technologies empowering individuals. Overall, the direction of travel matters more than speed, and human intent will shape how AI amplifies our goals.
I Was A Guest Lecturer at Yeditepe University MBA Program in TurkeyFahri Karakas
Dr. Gulzhanat Tayauova has invited me to her MBA class at Yeditepe University.
I presented on "Creativity, Imagination, and Innovation". It was an intense lecture, a bit long, but I ended up covering a lot of topics from blockchain to Metaverse.
You can find the slides of this presentation.
Enjoy!
A glimpse into the world of Gen Z - an 8 page Gen Z Manifesto that summarizes the upcoming book, The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of Business, available 11/11/14 at bookstores everywhere. Written by Dan Keldsen and Thomas Koulopoulos.
Who is Gen Z? What makes them tick? What is an accident of birth, and a purposeful decision?
Are YOU Gen Z?
Spot the Future is a project to figure out what is happening at the edge of change in Armenia, Egypt and Georgia. It is a collaboration between UNDP-CIS Innovation Unit and Edgeryders. In this presentation I explain why we do it, how we do it, and some early results.
The document is a presentation by members of Generation Y (born 1977-2000) about engaging their generation in NASA's mission and space exploration. They note that most in Gen Y are unaware of or uninterested in NASA. They discuss characteristics of Gen Y and how they have been shaped by different experiences than previous generations. They propose new strategies for NASA to better connect with Gen Y, such as facilitating discussions, sharing compelling stories, and using social media to engage them. The challenge is to develop new ideas to interest Gen Y in being part of the future of space exploration.
Original Medicare Parts A and B cover most, but not all, health supplies and services. For this reason, you may need to consider a Medicare supplement plan. Unlike Medicare, Medicare’s supplemental plans are provided by private insurance companies. Medigap covers the payment of a portion of the medical and hospital costs not covered by Original Medicare, such as co-insurance, co-payment and annual deductibles.
Munger's Wisdom and Notes on LKY in Daily Journal's Shareholder MeetingKoon Boon KEE
- Charlie Munger started the Daily Journal Corporation shareholder meeting by introducing the board of directors and presenting three proposals to shareholders. He suggested those who disagreed should leave, which drew laughs.
- Munger discussed how Daily Journal Corporation's print business is declining due to technology changes and less reliance on legal notices, so they decided to try replacing it with a software business, which has been more successful than expected after an initial difficult transition period.
- When asked about activist investors, Munger said he doesn't like the old system of permanent boards but thinks the new system of activists pushing for changes is even worse and not good for civilization.
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As a cybersecurity professional, you need to constantly learn, but what new skills are employers asking for — both now and in the coming years? Join this webinar to learn how to position your career to stay ahead of the latest technology trends, from AI to cloud security to the latest security controls. Then, start future-proofing your career for long-term success.
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Information and Communication Technology in EducationMJDuyan
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𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐂𝐓 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
Students will be able to explain the role and impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education. They will understand how ICT tools, such as computers, the internet, and educational software, enhance learning and teaching processes. By exploring various ICT applications, students will recognize how these technologies facilitate access to information, improve communication, support collaboration, and enable personalized learning experiences.
𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭:
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eToro Startup & mgnt 2.0 course - Class 01 the challenge of the future
1.
2. I. Purpose and Preamble
II. The History of Technology
III. The Case For Computer Science
IV. The Future For Progress
A. Globalization and Tech: Horizontal vs. Vertical Progress
B. The Problems of 0 to 1
C. The Educational and Narrative Challenge
D. Determinism vs. Indeterminism
E. The Future of Intensive Growth
V. Why Companies?
VI. Why Startups?
A. Costs Matter
B. Why Do a Startup?
C. The Costs of Failure
VII. Where to Start?
3.
4. We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.
Details are well understood; the big picture remains unclear. A fundamental
challenge—in business as in life—is to integrate the micro and macro such that all
things make sense.
Humanities majors may well learn a great deal about the world. But they don’t
really learn career skills through their studies. Engineering majors, conversely,
learn in great technical detail. But they might not learn why, how, or where they
should apply their skills in the workforce. The best students, workers, and
thinkers will integrate these questions into a cohesive narrative. This course aims
to facilitate that process.
5.
6. For most of recent human history—from the invention of the steam engine in the
late 17th century through about the late 1960’s or so— technological progress has
been tremendous, perhaps even relentless. In most prior human societies, people
made money by taking it from others. The industrial revolution wrought a
paradigm shift in which people make money through trade, not plunder.
The importance of this shift is hard to overstate. Perhaps 100 billion people have
ever lived on earth. Most of them lived in essentially stagnant societies; success
involved claiming value, not creating it. So the massive technological acceleration
of the past few hundred years is truly incredible.
7. The zenith of optimism about the future of technology might have been the
1960’s. People believed in the future. They thought about the future. Many were
supremely confident that the next 50 years would be a half-century of
unprecedented technological progress.
But with the exception of the computer industry, it wasn’t. Per capita incomes are
still rising, but that rate is starkly decelerating. Median wages have been stagnant
since 1973. People find themselves in an alarming Alice-in-Wonderland-style
scenario in which they must run harder and harder—that is, work longer hours—
just to stay in the same place. This deceleration is complex, and wage data alone
don’t explain it. But they do support the general sense that the rapid progress of
the last 200 years is slowing all too quickly.
8.
9. Computers have been the happy exception to recent tech deceleration.
Moore’s/Kryder’s/Wirth’s laws have largely held up, and forecast continued
growth.
Computer tech, with ever-improving hardware and agile development, is
something of a model for other industries. It’s obviously central to the Silicon
Valley ecosystem and a key driver of modern technological change.
So CS is the logical starting place to recapture the reins of progress.
10.
11. A. Globalization and Tech: Horizontal vs. Vertical Progress
Progress comes in two flavors: horizontal/extensive and vertical/intensive.
Horizontal or extensive progress basically means copying things that work. In one
word, it means simply “globalization.” Consider what China will be like in 50 years.
The safe bet is it will be a lot like the United States is now. Cities will be copied,
cars will be copied, and rail systems will be copied. Maybe some steps will be
skipped. But it’s copying all the same.
Vertical or intensive progress, by contrast, means doing new things. The single
word for this is “technology.” Intensive progress involves going from 0 to 1 (not
simply the 1 to n of globalization). We see much of our vertical progress come
from places like California, and specifically Silicon Valley.
12. But there is every reason to question whether we have enough of it. Indeed, most
people seem to focus almost entirely on globalization instead of technology;
speaking of “developed” versus “developing nations” is implicitly bearish about
technology because it implies some convergence to the “developed” status quo.
As a society, we seem to believe in a sort of technological end of history, almost
by default.
It’s worth noting that globalization and technology do have some interplay; we
shouldn’t falsely dichotomize them. Consider resource constraints as a 1 to n
subproblem. Maybe not everyone can have a car because that would be
environmentally catastrophic. If 1 to n is so blocked, only 0 to 1 solutions can
help. Technological development is thus crucially important, even if all we really
care about is globalization.
13. B. The Problems of 0 to 1
Maybe we focus so much on going from 1 to n because that’s easier to do. There’s
little doubt that going from 0 to 1 is qualitatively different, and almost always
harder, than copying something n times. And even trying to achieve vertical, 0 to
1 progress presents the challenge of exceptionalism; any founder or inventor
doing something new must wonder: am I sane? Or am I crazy?
14. Consider an analogy to politics. The United States is often thought of as an
“exceptional” country. At least many Americans believe that it is. So is the U.S.
sane? Or is it crazy? Everyone owns guns. No one believes in climate change. And
most people weigh 600 pounds. Of course, exceptionalism may cut the other way.
America is the land of opportunity. It is the frontier country. It offers new starts,
meritocratic promises of riches. Regardless of which version you buy, people must
grapple with the problem of exceptionalism.
Some 20,000 people, believing themselves uniquely gifted, move to Los Angeles
every year to become famous actors. Very few of them, of course, actually
become famous actors. The startup world is probably less plagued by the
challenge of exceptionalism than Hollywood is. But it probably isn’t immune to it.
15. C. The Educational and Narrative Challenge
Teaching vertical progress or innovation is almost a contradiction in terms.
Education is fundamentally about going from 1 to n. We observe, imitate, and
repeat. Infants do not invent new languages; they learn existing ones. From early
on, we learn by copying what has worked before.
That is insufficient for startups. Crossing T’s and dotting I’s will get you maybe 30%
of the way there. (It’s certainly necessary to get incorporation right, for instance.
And one can learn how to pitch VCs.) But at some point you have to go from 0 to
1—you have to do something important and do it right—and that can’t be taught.
Channeling Tolstoy’s intro to Anna Karenina, all successful companies are
different; they figured out the 0 to 1 problem in different ways. But all failed
companies are the same; they botched the 0 to 1 problem.
16. So case studies about successful businesses are of limited utility. PayPal and
Facebook worked. But it’s hard to know what was necessarily path-dependent.
The next great company may not be an e-payments or social network company.
We mustn’t make too much of any single narrative. Thus the business school case
method is more mythical than helpful.
17. D. Determinism vs. Indeterminism
Among the toughest questions about progress is the question of how we should
assess a venture’s probability of success. In the 1 to n paradigm, it’s a statistical
question. You can analyze and predict. But in the 0 to 1 paradigm, it’s not a
statistical question; the standard deviation with a sample size of 1 is infinite.
There can be no statistical analysis; statistically, we’re in the dark.
We tend to think very statistically about the future. And statistics tells us that it’s
random. We can’t predict the future; we can only think probabilistically. If the
market follows a random walk, there’s no sense trying to out-calculate it.
But there’s an alternative math metaphor we might use: calculus. The calculus
metaphor asks whether and how we can figure out exactly what’s going to
happen. Take NASA and the Apollo missions, for instance. You have to figure out
where the moon is going to be, exactly. You have to plan whether a rocket has
enough fuel to reach it. And so on. The point is that no one would want to ride in
a statistically, probabilistically-informed spaceship.
18. Startups are like the space program in this sense. Going from 0 to 1 always has to
favor determinism over indeterminism. But there is a practical problem with this.
We have a word for people who claim to know the future: prophets. And in our
society, all prophets are false prophets. Steve Jobs finessed his way about the line
between determinism and indeterminism; people sensed he was a visionary, but
he didn’t go too far. He probably cut it as close as possible (and succeeded
accordingly).
The luck versus skill question is also important. Distinguishing these factors is
difficult or impossible. Trying to do so invites ample opportunity for fallacious
reasoning. Perhaps the best we can do for now is to flag the question, and
suggest that it’s one that entrepreneurs or would-be entrepreneurs should have
some handle on.
19. E. The Future of Intensive Growth
There are four theories about the future of intensive progress.
First is convergence; starting with the industrial revolution, we saw a quick rise in
progress, but technology will decelerate and growth will become asymptotic.
Second, there is the cyclical theory. Technological progress moves in cycles;
advances are made, retrenchments ensue. Repeat. This has probably been true
for most of human history in the past. But it’s hard to imagine it remaining true;
to think that we could somehow lose all the information and know-how we’ve
amassed and be doomed to have to re-discover it strains credulity.
20. Third is collapse/destruction. Some technological advance will do us in.
Fourth is the singularity where technological development yields some AI or
intellectual event horizon.
People tend to overestimate the likelihood or explanatory power of the
convergence and cyclical theories. Accordingly, they probably underestimate the
destruction and singularity theories.
21.
22. If we want technological development, why look to companies to do it? It’s
possible, after all, to imagine a society in which everyone works for the
government. Or, conversely, one in which everyone is an independent contractor.
Why have some intermediate version consisting of at least two people but less
than everyone on the planet?
The answer is straightforward application of the Coase Theorem. Companies exist
because they optimally address internal and external coordination costs. In
general, as an entity grows, so do its internal coordination costs. But its external
coordination costs fall. Totalitarian government is entity writ large; external
coordination is easy, since those costs are zero. But internal coordination, as
Hayek and the Austrians showed, is hard and costly; central planning doesn’t
work.
The flipside is that internal coordination costs for independent contractors are
zero, but external coordination costs (uniquely contracting with absolutely
everybody one deals with) are very high, possibly paralyzingly so. Optimality—
firm size—is a matter of finding the right combination.
23.
24. A. Costs Matter
Size and internal vs. external coordination costs matter a lot. North of 100 people
in a company, employees don’t all know each other. Politics become important.
Incentives change. Signaling that work is being done may become more important
than actually doing work. These costs are almost always underestimated. Yet they
are so prevalent that professional investors should and do seriously reconsider
before investing in companies that have more than one office.
Severe coordination problems may stem from something as seemingly trivial or
innocuous as a company having a multi-floor office. Hiring consultants and trying
to outsource key development projects are, for similar reasons, serious red flags.
While there’s surely been some lessening of these coordination costs in the last
40 years—and that explains the shift to somewhat smaller companies—the
tendency is still to underestimate them. Since they remain fairly high, they’re
worth thinking hard about.
25. Path’s limiting its users to 150 “friends” is illustrative of this point. And ancient
tribes apparently had a natural size limit that didn’t much exceed that number.
Startups are important because they are small; if the size and complexity of a
business is something like the square of the number of people in it, then startups
are in a unique position to lower interpersonal or internal costs and thus to get
stuff done.
The familiar Austrian critique dovetails here as well. Even if a computer could
model all the narrowly economic problems a company faces (and, to be clear,
none can), it wouldn’t be enough. To model all costs, it would have to model
human irrationalities, emotions, feelings, and interactions. Computers help, but
we still don’t have all the info. And if we did, we wouldn’t know what to do with
it. So, in practice, we end up having companies of a certain size.
26. B. Why Do a Startup?
The easiest answer to “why startups?” is negative: because you can’t develop new
technology in existing entities. There’s something wrong with big companies,
governments, and non-profits. Perhaps they can’t recognize financial needs; the
federal government, hamstrung by its own bureaucracy, obviously
overcompensates some while grossly undercompensating others in its employ. Or
maybe these entities can’t handle personal needs; you can’t always get
recognition, respect, or fame from a huge bureaucracy. Anyone on a mission
tends to want to go from 0 to 1. You can only do that if you’re surrounded by
others to want to go from 0 to 1. That happens in startups, not huge companies or
government.
27. Doing startups for the money is not a great idea. Research shows that people get
happier as they make more and more money, but only up to about $70,000 per
year. After that, marginal improvements brought by higher income are more or
less offset by other factors (stress, more hours, etc. Plus there is obviously
diminishing marginal utility of money even absent offsetting factors).
Perhaps doing startups to be remembered or become famous is a better motive.
Perhaps not. Whether being famous or infamous should be as important as most
people seem to think it is highly questionable. A better motive still would be a
desire to change the world. The U.S. in 1776-79 was a startup of sorts. What were
the Founders motivations? There is a large cultural component to the motivation
question, too. In Japan, entrepreneurs are seen as reckless risk-takers. The
respectable thing to do is become a lifelong employee somewhere. The literary
version of this sentiment is “behind every fortune lies a great crime.” Were the
Founding Fathers criminals? Are all founders criminals of one sort or another?
28. C. The Costs of Failure
Startups pay less than bigger companies. So founding or joining one involves some
financial loss. These losses are generally thought to be high. In reality, they aren’t
that high.
The nonfinancial costs are actually higher. If you do a failed startup, you may not
have learned anything useful. You may actually have learned how to fail again. You
may become more risk-averse. You aren’t a lottery ticket, so you shouldn’t think
of failure as just 1 of n times that you’re going to start a company. The stakes are a
bit bigger than that.
A 0 to 1 startup involves low financial costs but low non-financial costs too. You’ll
at least learn a lot and probably will be better for the effort. A 1 to n startup,
though, has especially low financial costs, but higher non-financial costs. If you try
to do Groupon for Madagascar and it fails, it’s not clear where exactly you are. But
it’s not good.
29.
30. The path from 0 to 1 might start with asking and answering three questions. First,
what is valuable? Second, what can I do? And third, what is nobody else doing?
The questions themselves are straightforward. Question one illustrates the
difference between business and academia; in academia, the number one sin is
plagiarism, not triviality. So much of the innovation is esoteric and not at all
useful. No one cares about a firm’s eccentric, non-valuable output. The second
question ensures that you can actually execute on a problem; if not, talk is just
that. Finally, and often overlooked, is the importance of being novel. Forget that
and we’re just copying.
The intellectual rephrasing of these questions is: What important truth do very
few people agree with you on?
The business version is: What valuable company is nobody building?
31. These are tough questions. But you can test your answers; if, as so many people
do, one says something like “our educational system is broken and urgently
requires repair,” you know that that answer is wrong (it may be a truth, but lots of
people agree with it). This may explain why we see so many education non-profits
and startups. But query whether most of those are operating in technology mode
or globalization mode. You know you’re on the right track when your answer
takes the following form:
“Most people believe in X. But the truth is !X.”
Make no mistake; it’s a hard question. Knowing what 0 to 1 endeavor is worth
pursuing is incredibly rare, unique, and tricky. But the process, if not the result,
can also be richly rewarding.