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The Industries of the Future
by Alec J. Ross
Dec. 13, 2017 - Dec. 13, 2017 (read/silicon-valley-etc/dissertation/questionable-politics)

J. Ross, A. (2016). The Industries of the Future. Simon Schuster.


Simon Schuster, 2016. 320 pages. Hardcover. 9781476753652

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p.174
indelibly »
in a way that cannot be removed or forgotten
p.243
there is great shame for society
I often think back to the midnight shift on the j…
p.212
WhatsApp's $19 billion sale
In Silicon Valley on February 19, 2014, the day a…
p.208
the high-water mark for Belarus
The high-water mark for Belarus and the Internet …
p.185
let's not leave it to the machines
The choices we make about how we manage data will…
p.184
big data and negative bias
Correlations made by big data are likely to reinf…

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The Weaponization of Code

he spends some time describing North Korea as a "hellhole" with, surprisingly, impressive cyberattack capabilities

also a expresses a really weird theory about the White House asking the Chinese govt to punish North Korea? which they did by getting China Unicom to take North Korea's internet offline? really bizarre

otoh, he does think govts should ensure that citizens are protected (cybersecurity-wise) rather than leaving it up to the market, which is a step forward

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The Weaponization of Code

he spends some time describing North Korea as a "hellhole" with, surprisingly, impressive cyberattack capabilities

also a expresses a really weird theory about the White House asking the Chinese govt to punish North Korea? which they did by getting China Unicom to take North Korea's internet offline? really bizarre

otoh, he does think govts should ensure that citizens are protected (cybersecurity-wise) rather than leaving it up to the market, which is a step forward

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Data: The Raw Material of the Information Age

language translations getting better due to exponential growth in data. he's not wrong here, though he overreaches ... he mentions on p160 that Papua New Guinea has great natural resources, but 850 languages, which scares off foreign investors, and implies that better translation software will overcome those barriers? first of all, foreign investors can fuck right off, and second of all, idk where i was going with this but his argument is pretty gross

mentions that Alex Karp, one of the founders of Palantir, studied under Habermas ... wtf happened to him

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Data: The Raw Material of the Information Age

language translations getting better due to exponential growth in data. he's not wrong here, though he overreaches ... he mentions on p160 that Papua New Guinea has great natural resources, but 850 languages, which scares off foreign investors, and implies that better translation software will overcome those barriers? first of all, foreign investors can fuck right off, and second of all, idk where i was going with this but his argument is pretty gross

mentions that Alex Karp, one of the founders of Palantir, studied under Habermas ... wtf happened to him

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186

The Geography of Future Markets

he does the standard SV fetish thing of glorifying youth as a catalyst for "innovation"

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The Geography of Future Markets

he does the standard SV fetish thing of glorifying youth as a catalyst for "innovation"

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