"By further politicizing and regulating the internet, policymakers will assist large firms - and their billionaire owners - in crushing the competition, and ensuring the public has fewer choices."
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg published an Op-Ed in the Washington Post over the weekend calling for greater government Internet regulation. Notably absent was any mention of breaking up the company.
Analysts have been anticipating the implications of the Internet of Things (IoT) for several years. However, there have been two main impediments to its success: capacity and security.
Battery energy storage deployment in the US has rapidly increased in recent years and appears set for further growth, assuming costs continue decreasing and pending market rule changes increase opportunities ...
If only inefficiency was the only concern of large-scale, government funded AI research! Unfortunately, the White House, Pentagon, Congress, and others have indicated that they have much more destructive ends in mind.
Evolutionary roboticists have decided to begin teaching artificial intelligence powered robots to evolve and reproduce. Why should humans go to the trouble of building more robots when a robot could do it instead?
Entering commoditized, fiercely competitive low-margin services cannot substitute for the high-margin profits that will be lost as global recession and saturation erode iPhone sales.
"A robot apocalypse straight out of the movie theaters seems to be approaching. What if robots form biases against certain groups of people – or humanity overall?"
Despite its relatively slow start, blockchain could find fertile ground for mainstream growth in the gaming industry. A sector that is so defined by its embrace of cutting-edge technology can only benefit from blockchain’s many advantages.
Challenges remain, of course. Notable is that blockchain remains constricted by physical realities. Scaling must be resolved to support real mass gaming—as the Crypto Kitties fiasco showed—and the cost of developing on blockchain must also become more feasible. The technology’s multiple applications and real use cases, stretching from smarter marketplaces to virtual resources for developers to tap into, make it a perfect fit for gaming. Although it may come with some lumps, it seems blockchain and gaming are set for a productive and mutually-beneficial future.
This pool of available wealth and income is so vast, we're assured, that taxing the super-wealthy will not really dent their wealth or the economy as a whole... But what if the world is rapidly becoming poorer in every important sense?
