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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Marc Andreesen is one of the US’s leading VC’s so what he says and thinks can influence tech and startup…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF On the one hand we’re worried what happens to society when AI gets smarter than humans, but what happens if…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Our future will be vastly different from today’s reality so students will need all the help they can get to…

WHY THIS MATTER IN BRIEF In a time when most companies focus on the short term at the expense of the long term Bezos’ focus…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most sci-fi books and movies paint a dystopian view of the future, and it’s all too easy for people to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Sci-fi and the future are kindred cousins, and its no coincidence that one inspires the other.   Love the Exponential…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Pollution and other factors have hidden consequences on everything from our health to the environment, and those consequences have costs….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A quality education not only benefits subsequent family generations but it also boosts earnings potential and helps reduce inequality.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world is changing faster than at any other point in human history, and that change is accelerating. The change…

the orbital perspective We all live under the same sky, but have you ever wondered what humanity could achieve and the challenges we could overcome…

“While many people feel the rate of technological development is accelerating what they often miss is that this acceleration is also accelerating.”   Love the…

“The future is widely misunderstood. Our ancestors expected it to be pretty much like their present, which had been pretty much like their past.”  …