Google is a Not a Benevolent Custodian of our Data
Google and Facebook are advertising and data harvesting companies. When we use these “utilities” we are giving them root access to our data….
Google and Facebook are advertising and data harvesting companies. When we use these “utilities” we are giving them root access to our data….
In a world where the coronavirus is stimulating automation, digital transformation and AI, a shiny startup from China called ByteDance is taking on…
In an age of declining foot traffic and stores going bankrupt, how we envision the store is changing. With the dramatic rise of…
What if AI helped us find the vaccine for the novel coronavirus? How might that impact the future of biotechnology? As BigTech are…
When Softbank invested in the future of autonomous driving, GM’s Cruise unit is likely one thing it got right. Many Softbank startups are…
Google Brain has a product that I’m watching closely. Like they say in their blog, modern conversational agents (chatbots) tend to be highly…
While ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, rose higher in 2019 in advertising vs. Baidu, in 2020 it could compete with Tencent’s gaming empire….
Cash, plastic or hand, fools? In the future of payment options, in the West the simple hand may come before the QR codes…
While we write about the retail apocalypse of store closures at the Last Futurist, it’s important to note that a multitude of trends…
One of the major trends of the 2020s is artificial intelligence increasingly being utilized in healthcare and early patient diagnosis. Subscribe to the…