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Don't discount Facebook just yet

Don't discount Facebook just yet

A few years ago, tech journalists and, even worse, business analysts were still calling Facebook a startup. But you know me, I find it hard to call a "startup" a trillion-dollar business founded 18 years ago. Nowadays, the trend is to discount Facebook as a has-been digital incumbent

10 technologies that will shape our next five years

10 technologies that will shape our next five years

Last week we had one of the numerous forecasts about technology (*) that we've been reading for so many years. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2022This list represents a glimpse into our collective future.MIT Technology ReviewThe Editors I'm not going to have an opinion about the pertinence of

Are automakers missing out on the real future market?

Are automakers missing out on the real future market?

243 million cars are circulating in Europe [https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_EU_Pocketbook_2020_Web_Dec2020.pdf] ; among them, about 15.5 million were newly registered, and among them, only 2.27 million are electric (still a record 2021 number for Evs). With that, my question

Another day, another western brand kicked out of China

Brace yourself for a 2022 year buzzing with western brands getting kicked out of China. If not directly, at least because of an overnight devastating consumer revolt on national social media. I've been explaining since Trump and even more fuelled by Covid-19 that the country was closing down

Is Intel dead? (yes)

Is Intel dead? (yes)

Intel's downfall has been ongoing for decades now. While they barreled out of the seventies to the eighties as a juggernaut weaponizing the emerging desktop computer segment with Microsoft, they entirely missed the mobile market twenty years later. While still pushing for more powerful chips, the industry was

Lab-grown meat arrives in Europe

Lab-grown meat arrives in Europe

About ten years ago, I illustrated how technology and market cycles interacted with each other the first $250,000 lab-grown burger produced after months of work. A few years later, startups like Beyond Meat [https://www.beyondmeat.com/] solved the problem of beef carbon-impact not with protein synthesis but with