DAO’s could soon get legal standing under new California law
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DAO’s are a “newish” form of decentralised or “headless” organisation and California wants to profit and benefit from them so is introducing new legislation to approve and regulate them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University,...
Jack Dorsey launches BlueSky Social a completely new kind of decentralised social network
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most companies and social networks are run and managed centrally but decentralised platforms and protocols using DLT’s completely change the game. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
DAO’s could change how we all work and how we’re all paid
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When looking at the future of work most people look at the “work” not at the company structures we work for but that’s where the real innovation is coming from. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof...
Jack Dorsey wants Elon Musk to turn Twitter into a protocol not a company
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Future companies won’t look anything like the companies of today in the way they operate and scale, and this is a great example of future thinking. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
Botto the decentralised AI artist bags its first million dollars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s not just humans and animals that can create works of art – AI’s getting better at it to and it’s getting rich off it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Futurist Keynote: The Future of Work and Skills 2040, Aon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The way we work and the way we tap into skills is changing, and tat impacts everything from how we educate our children and train our workforce, to how we build and operate companies. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote,...
Futurist Keynote, Paris: I, The Company of 2040, Accenture
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The companies and startups of the future will be very different from today’s, so during this keynote I dive into the rabbit hole. Firstly, thank you to the team at Accenture for inviting me to be their keynote speaker at the annual Accenture Technology...
Ownerless companies on the rise as startups experiment with new business models
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Blockchain will let us build new types of companies in new ways, including ownerless companies where funds and profits are divided automatically between individuals. Slowly, very slowly, we’re seeing the emergence of the world’s first fully autonomous companies, from small hedge funds in Hong...
Futurist Keynote, London: Investing in the Exponential Future, SRP European Conference
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Incredibly powerful, and increasingly democratised, emerging technologies are transforming every sector faster than ever, and this can have dire consequences for investors if the mechanisms behind the change are not understood. Firstly, thank you to Amelie for inviting me to be the keynote for...
The founder of China’s largest online retailer envisions a “100% robotic workforce”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are particular industries and companies that lend themselves for full automation, and E-Commerce is just one of them. “I hope my company would be 100% automation someday … no human beings anymore, 100% operated by AI and robots.” That’s Richard Liu’s audacious goal,...
Death isn’t forever, companies build digital avatars so people can “live on after death”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Digital Avatars will mean that physical human death is simply a doorway into a new digital reality where our descendants interact with our Avatars instead of the real, physical us. Over the past couple of years, asides from the giant strides we’ve seen in...
Futurist Keynote, Germany: Life in 2030, RWE
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A lot has changed in the last ten years, and even more will change in the next ten. Are you ready? Firstly, a big thank you to Kathrin and the team for inviting me to be the keynote at this years RWE Leadership meeting...
UK Government mulls creating the world’s first Robo-Regulator for fintechs
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Regulating industries and companies is an increasingly complicated task, and some are arguing that it’s one that should be automated and given to the machines, but that opens up its own set of challenges. The love affair British politicians have enjoyed with fintech since...
Blockchain Autonomous Organisations, a new way to tackle corporate fuelled wealth inequality?
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Automation and the emergence of powerful, centralised platform companies are, arguably, helping fuel wealth inequality, could blockchain based distributed autonomous organisations be an answer? Many people know that Blockchain is the pivotal technology behind all of today’s major cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, and while it...
Stanford just built the world’s first Flash Organisation
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With fully automated, and crowdsourced organisations already here the only type of organisation that noone seems to have been able to create yet is a Flash Organisation, but that could soon change We’ve all heard about the rise of Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAO), that don’t...
Wall Street supremo’s pile into a new AI hedge fund dubbed the future of finance
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Until now the financial services industry has never been able to benefit from a network effect, but that’s about to change and it could tip Wall Street on its head. The “Network Effect” is a phenomenon known the world over, it’s where a service...
No humans required, the fully autonomous AI running a Wall Street hedge fund
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Companies that use artificial intelligence to augment their human workers is nothing new, but companies that are run by artificial intelligence, without any human input, are. I’ve been documenting the emergence of fully autonomous organisations – organisations that are able to run and scale...
The world’s largest hedge fund is using AI to automate its entire management team
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The news is filled with news about automation and machines that are taking our jobs, arguably for the first time we can see companies who are automating both the workers at the base of the pyramid, and the executives at the top. In the next...
Ethereum community votes to reverse DAO hack
In a landmark decision, the distributed, decentralized community that makes up Ethereum came to a near-unanimous consensus to implement a radical software change, known as a “hard fork.” This has been done in order to prevent a hacker who attacked The DAO and drained nearly $40 million worth of ether,...
The Hard Fork, D-Day for Ethereum and the DAO
Last month, an unknown attacker drained tens of millions of dollars worth of the digital currency Ether from The DAO, an Ethereum based smart contract aimed at functioning as a funding vehicle for projects in the ecosystem. The incident sparked an effort to effectively roll back the clock and undo...
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