Tag: tech

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  December 8, 2019

  Imagine an infinitely generated world that you could explore endlessly, continually finding entirely new content and adventures. What if you could also choose any action you can think of instead… more ›

• Ecommerce as Video’s Killer App

  December 8, 2019

  As online video platforms seek a business model beyond advertising, and short videos start to look more and more like commercials, it turns out that commerce may be video’s killer… more ›

• The Video-First Future of Ecommerce

  December 6, 2019

  In the future, we’re all going to be shopping on video apps like TikTok. Whether you’re buying instant noodles or high-end sweaters, it has become increasingly clear that short video… more ›

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”

  December 1, 2019

  Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele,… more ›

• AI is Industrializing Discovery

  November 26, 2019

  One of the defining characteristics in an industrial revolution is the fundamental shift from a bespoke, artisan process to an  industrialized, engineerable, repeatable one. https://a16z.com/2019/11/19/ai-industrializing-discovery-biology-healthcare/ more ›

• The Myth of a Superhuman AI

  November 17, 2019

  I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources, and humans will go extinct. Is… more ›

• We Now Live in a Driverless World

  November 11, 2019

  On November 2nd 2019, I sent an email to the Voyage team on why we now live in a post-driverless world. https://news.voyage.auto/we-now-live-in-a-driverless-world-cb07a01159c0 more ›

• The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits

  November 1, 2019

  From ‘Donkey Kong’ to the NES — how a Japanese company took over the American living room. An exclusive first serial from ‘Console Wars.’ The following is an excerpt from… more ›

• Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers

  October 29, 2019

  Martin Kok had already dodged death once that day. As the 49-year-old Dutch convict turned successful crime blogger left a late lunch at an Amsterdam hotel in December 2016, a… more ›

• Google just released a “phone” made of paper

  October 26, 2019

  Our phones are making us unhappy, and companies like Google are wrestling with how to keep expanding a product like Android without destroying the soul of humanity in the process.… more ›