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How technology (invention) shapes the market's future (innovation).

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

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

24 Steps to regulate big tech

24 Steps to regulate big tech

The core reason we can’t regulate big tech (the GAFAM or however you want to call them these days) is that politicians don’t understand where to start. And it’s because they don’t understand the underlying digital business model on which they operate. Anil Dash gives us

Europe space sovereignty

Europe space sovereignty

We have an important number of wake-up calls around Europe’s sovereignty and future. The latest one is the cry of European astronauts for the continent to develop its own crewed spaceflight vehicle. [https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/european-astronauts-call-for-development-of-a-crewed-spacecraft/] While everyone seems to have their eyes on Space X

Retail disruption: brick and mortar 2.0

Retail disruption: brick and mortar 2.0

I was discussing this morning the announcement of a new Amazon retail adventure: a physical apparel store. This is interesting on several levels: (1) Amazon keeps on pushing on the old economy, not only by making with its online store (and immense, semi-automated physical supply chain) but also by trying

Waste: the future of foodtech?

Waste: the future of foodtech?

When considering foodtech you’re thinking lab-grown or plant-based meat alternatives and other food-related products. “Food” it’s in the name, right? In Singapore where reaching 30% food autarky in 2030 is a key national goal, by-products of the food industry are explored as the bricks of widely different products:

Lyft and Uber: commitment vs. hyper-scale

Lyft and Uber: commitment vs. hyper-scale

With Airbnb, Uber is probably now the last surviving hyper-scale startup of the 2010s. But unlike Airbnb, Uber is not in good shape. On paper, Uber dominates ride-sharing worldwide with a massive footprint of over +100 million users and a dominant market share wherever it operates. Uber amounts to about