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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Then AI will really take off. (If

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business.