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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). Recent Entries.

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Fit and value: The business case for blockchain

O'Reilly

Executives and decision makers can now better see the promise blockchain holds to improve business processes and facilitate creating innovative products, and, in some cases, entirely new markets. Food Trust is a blockchain ecosystem that covers more than 100 organizations, including Carrefour and the top four grocery retailers in the U.S.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. For about half that time I worked freelance, and the other half for Site Confidence / NCC Group in the UK. I think that was the point I became hooked!

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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Regardless how bad it gets, there is a candle of hope perpetually burning in the expectation is that free human societies are resilient and will respond and innovate in the face of challenge and will ultimately be more productive and more effective on the other side.

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Late Mover Advantage

The Agile Manager

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. They were in a state of mutually assured destruction.

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