How technology (invention) shapes the market's future (innovation).
I briefly touched yesterday on how John Deere embraced its side of the tech revolution in mobility by becoming a software-driven company (with some nasty side effects for its customers). But their investment in tech might go far beyond what you'd expect... In the late nineties, John Deere
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Domestic robots are a novelty that Amazon is trying out with a few early-stage customers. exploring ahead of the curve. Stitch an iPad and a Rumba together, and you'll get Astro. Except that Astro won't vacuum and that to be honest it's pretty useless
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In 2015 I discussed to which extent technology could be leveraged by luxury brands and if tech brands could ever invade the luxury space. Let's see where we are in 2022.
The title of this article should have been: "I tried to write something about NFT technology in less than 10 min, and I failed miserably." I did succeed in going down this huge rabbit hole and back, though. Care to join?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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Cracking the luxury market in China for western companies has always been an uphill battle. Hyundai Takes a Second Run at China With Luxury Genesis BrandHyundai Motor Co. is far from the top automobile brand of choice in China but its luxury-car division is seeking to change all that with