🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 8. The battle for the rails
Europe spent ten to fifteen years dreaming of startups while the next battle for tech supremacy was already waged elsewhere, on the new "rails" and critical infrastructure.
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Can Tesla deliver robotaxis? They'll have to answer these 15 questions first
A few days ago, Elon Musk showed off his promised robotaxi, the Cybercab.
The Tesla Cybercab is a cool-looking prototype that needed to be much more than thatThe same, tired promises.The Verge
This Cybercab might never get to the streets–or at least not without solving half a dozen
Will AI win the Nobel for the U.S. from now on?
Back in September 2022, I was reporting on digital and AI:
(...) this Friday, I'd suggest we get some fresh air and a dose of solid optimism about what digital can achieve. How? Remembering that artificial intelligence cracked one of the most complex problems of modern biology this year:
Tampa, a canary in the coal mine for innovating urbanism
Tampa Bay is becoming a canary in the coal mine for the escalating climate crisis. For over a century, it has largely avoided Florida's most destructive hurricanes, but that might end with Hurricane Milton, which threatens a storm surge of up to 4.5 meters. The region’s
🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 7. The slow incumbents' extinction
The core insight
A wave of extinction seems to be hitting many of the industry leaders of the last decades. This is not a random event. The underlying forces of the market are changing irrevocably, and just like Intel or Boeing, anyone can be the next Kodak.
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My BIG Technology Framework - Free template
As I'm working with a few teams and MBA students with My Big Technology Framework (a thorough technical assessment of what level of maturity and business impact any given technology has), I decided to share the Mural template I use to collaborate with them.
It's a
🟢 9 Strategic insights for 2025 - 6. Innovation centers are (mostly) done
The innovation lab seemed to be a great idea years ago. Intrapreneurs, infusing new energy in the system with startup-like energy and all that jazz. The most prominent labs are now all closed, mostly silently and without much to show for. The bean bags and pong table are in
a closet. What now?