How to build a billion-dollar company – and why you might not want to CHAPTER 1 Atoms < Bits What do billion-dollar companies look like? You’ve probably heard of National Express, the company that operates a vast number of bus and train services in the UK and beyond, turning a profit of £40 million inContinue reading “Unicorn Dreams”
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Power And Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Hachette, New York, 2023), pp. 546
This is the submission version of my review of Acemoglu and Johnson’s Power And Progress in Economic Record. The published version is available here [paywall]. To buy the book, go here. “Technological progress… leads to material abundance for everyone”, writes the entrepreneur turned venture capitalist Marc Andreesen in his Tech Optimist Manifesto, articulating a viewContinue reading “Power And Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Hachette, New York, 2023), pp. 546”
Data Ethics
What is data ethics? According to Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo, Data Ethics is “a new branch of ethics that studies and evaluates the moral problems related to data (including generation, recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing and use), algorithms (including artificial intelligence, artificial agents, machine learning and robots) and corresponding practices (including responsible innovation, programming,Continue reading “Data Ethics”
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