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2024: A Pivotal Year

Digital Tonto

In 2009, it felt like the world was ending. In 2009 I started my blog, Digital Tonto, which turned my life in a new direction. We have wars raging, authoritarian regimes on the rise, deep challenges posed by climate change, and the need to regulate our technology, especially, but not only, artificial intelligence.

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Ten Modern Examples of Bad Assumptions

Destination Innovation

He was given a 150-year prison sentence in 2009. Theranos Scandal 2018: Investors and healthcare institutions assumed that Theranos, a biotech startup, founded in 2003 by 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes had groundbreaking technology for blood testing, but it turned out to be a fraud.

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Revolutionizing the Deal-Making Landscape: yet2’s 11 Deals in a Single Month

Yet2

Looking back even further, in the first half of 2009, we completed 14 deals, which was our past record. Deals were done for clients across health, government, and hygiene industries, with promising technologies around AI custom skin care solutions and renewable energy technologies. Where have our deals come from?

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. Proximie , based in London, develops remote surgery technology using augmented reality. Maria Karvela gained a PhD at the University of Glasgow before working as scientist in skincare technology. Nadine Hachach-Haram.

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Enabling Innovation In A Global Company Like PayPal

ITONICS

PayPal is a multinational financial technology company driving an online payments system in more than 200 countries. She joined the company as a compliance analyst in 2009 but was exposed to the world of innovation when she took part in a two-year technology leadership program sponsored by PayPal. PayPal’s Innovation Toolkit.

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Where is technology taking the economy?

The Inovo Group

Brian Arthur, well-known economist who described the phenomenon of increasing returns and wrote the excellent 2009 book, “ The Nature of Technology ”. The post Where is technology taking the economy? This is bringing us into a new economic era—a distributive one—where different rules apply. So begins this excellent article by W.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. The rise of digital technologies poses many challenges and opportunities for ethnographic research. Can you describe how your research process was structured for this writing effort? especially the Bay Area).