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Notes for tech generalists

A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow

[Social Media] Will WeChat be the next? Facebook brings on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal as backers of its cryptocurrency, Libra. Crypto watchers got different feelings : * Bullish Billionaire crypto investorMichael Novogratz commented: “Visa serves some 50mm merchants. I’m sure MC(master card) is pretty close to that. Meditate on that.

Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about the location of water have evolved us to become more successful than apes.  In his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making

In today’s AI era, I revisited the once-hyped concept Gene and Meme, the idea that we are vehicles driven by these two replicators, who care less about the vehicle’s (ours) own well-being (meaning) but thrive for mere replication. A book called “The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in

Tim Wu’s new book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, has stirred up heated debates on corporate’s bigness in today’s digital economy. Here are two different point of views based on his recent op-ed on the New York Times in this subject. Nicole