🟢 How Benedict Evans sees the future of digital
This week let's move past the GAFAM and ChatGPT and zoom out to consider the future of digital. Good timing, as Benedict Evans just published his annual deck of slides on the very subject!
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The friction of signing in on the web
I was just reading an article on The Verge that I both personally 100% relate to, but that is also a hard digital business truth: on the web, no one wants to sign to your 'free' service.
I don’t want to log in to your websiteJust say
ChatGPT is fine, but China's long-term AI race is not going away
While ChatGPT has been unleashed on the world, I started to read about European politicians and intellectuals demanding our version and asking why we couldn't invent it. This amounts to discovering a jungle and asking that we plant trees immediately to catch up ('sigh'). And while
AI, a Photoshop for the mind...
Tim Rayner from Phase One Insight poked me recently to discuss an article on AI published at the beginning of the year. The article "The Third Magic" discussed many thorny concepts about AI and how we humans deal with knowledge, cognition, and power.
Among (many) other things, the
🟢 The conflicting business model of subscription
While Meta just announced a paying blue mark subscription for Facebook and Meta, it's worth questioning their logic, if there's a real strategy at play, and what subscription is as a business model anyway.
Peacetime vs. Wartime innovation?
If you think The Godfather II would be the worst possible source to find the proper inspiration for strategy and innovation, I'd be with you. That being said, the movie has an interesting line of dialogue between Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen, his half-brother of sorts and family
🟢 The year the GAFAM could disappear. Episode 5, Facebook
In this series of five articles, I will discuss each of the current GAFAMs as 2023 might be the year their reign of supremacy on our life, work, and social connection comes to an end.