Science & Technology

✒ Driverless cars will not be commercially viable for years. It is smart to not only share costs, but also to tap expertise of other sophisticated investors.

✒ The AI doctor will see you now.

✒ Flash boys.

✒ In a nutshell: it’s about platform risk – it may not ultimately matter whether or not Libra comes to fruition in the near future.

✒ Computers make good recommendations, but do people want to listen?

✒ A legal definition of a security is needed.

✒ Healthcare is one of the most promising areas likely to be transformed by machine learning systems.

✒ How do you balance privacy protection and convenience offered by technology which is fuelled by your personal data?

✒ Towards Life 3.0.

✒ Not so “Ponzi” anymore.

✒ From FinTech to TechFin.

✒ Looking forward to reading the white paper next week when it is published.

✒ The case could have wide implications for blockchain startups, many of which used ICOs to fund their ventures. It could bring greater regulatory clarity around how cryptocurrency projects should proceed going forward.

✒ How (not) to become the next blockbuster.

✒ Sleepwalking into the future.

✒ “If the world’s listed banks chopped expenses by a third, the saving would be worth $80 a year for every person on Earth. Rotten service will improve and the system will get better at its vital job of allocating capital to firms and consumers.”

✒ Hunter-gatherers do not suffer from it. The question is why.

✒ What you pay for life in­sur­ance could de­pend on your next in­sta­gram post.

✒ Conclusion by the author: PE is causing tech to behave like all other industries, more mainstream, more valuable, healthier and more profitable, but perhaps just that little bit less “special” and “transformational”.

✒ With computing power and engineering talent reaching a certain threshold, the abundance of data becomes the decisive factor for success. Chinese citizens’ relative openness with data collection is giving the country strategic advantage. The more the data, the more accurate the algorithm.