It’s probably fairly obvious that the smartphone has been the most impactful technological innovation of the past two decades. Few technologies have influenced daily life as much as the always-connected supercomputers we carry in our pockets. The smartphone has changed how we communicate, work, shop, travel, consume media, date, socialize Read more…
The last forty years have been a spectacular period for technology entrepreneurship. A rapid succession of fundamental technologies from the personal computer to the world wide web to smartphones (and their many underlying layers of enabling technologies) have produced a cornucopia of entrepreneurial opportunity. Today, the five most valuable companies Read more…
The world of advertising agencies is clearly in trouble. Or, more accurately, the industry is in a potentially existential crisis, threatened by ever higher client demands, new competitors and the power of digital platforms. If agencies don’t change the way they do business, things could get very ugly, very soon. Read more…
Five years ago, I wrote my most successful blog post ever (well, so far). It was originally intended to be just rant for my gadget-obsessed friends, but it got quickly upvoted on Hacker News and was finally republished by Business Insider and Gizmodo, reaching probably around 300,000 readers. Obviously I had struck a Read more…
We live in interesting times. The top 5 most valuable companies in 2008 were a mix of energy, retail, consumer products, finance, and a bit of tech. In 2018, all top 5 are tech companies. The tech giants and their products have become so pervasive in our lives that we Read more…