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The Intangible Economy

(Excerpt from Capitalism Without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stan Westlake) The type of investment that has risen inexorably is intangible: investment in ideas, in knowledge, in aesthetic content, in software, in...

September 8, 2019| Tech Read More

Why tech uses equity as a main source of funding

(Excerpt from Capitalism Without Capital by Jonathan Haskel and Stan Westlake) Even those intangibles that can be sold, like patents or copyrights, present problems to creditors: they are typically difficult to value...

September 8, 2019| Tech Read More

Tech changes lifestyle

(Excerpt from Breaking Smart by Venkatesh Rao) To traditionalists, particularly in the United States, the car is a motif for an entire way of life, and the smartphone just an accessory. To early adopters who have...

September 8, 2019| Tech Read More

5 Main Types of Machine Learning

(Excerpt from The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos) For symbolists, all intelligence can be reduced to manipulating symbols, in the same way that a mathematician solves equations by replacing expressions by other...

September 8, 2019| Tech Read More

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