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Yesterday Facebook announced, as predicted, the launch of a range of tools to facilitate the development of "bots" on its Messenger platform. The argument being made far and wide is that bots are a replacement for apps which have become so numerous that their usefulness…

Robin Hanson What is the next phase for humanity? Robin Hanson set out to answer this question in a thought-provoking and lively talk to London Futurists on March 19th. He argues that humanity has been through several distinct economic growth phases each of which has been "exponential" in character. The…

The world is headed for a big transition, says David Orban, entrepreneur and Singularity University faculty member, speaking at a London Futurists lecture in London on February 6th. "Technology created humans," he says. "And we continue to use reason to advance technology for humanity's benefit." But the…

I spotted ReWork on my bookshelf yesterday and it reminded me how much I had enjoyed reading this thought-provoking account of 37 Signals' business philosophy. That inspired me to see if I could find Jason Fried, the founder, talking about his approach and I found it here.

The battle between electric cars and traditional cars will follow the same lines as the battle between new and old media - here's how. The first reaction of old media to the arrival of the internet was to dismiss it as irrelevant. Then, as the…