All Free? The Tech Industry is so dumb!
March 4, 2021
January 10, 2022
Initially, it seems the tech industry is just dumb. You could think: “So they get me to watch adds, and they collect my data. It
March 4, 2021
Wright’s Law: The secret to knowing what’s next for products & product prices.
Understanding Wright's Law, is key to knowing what technology, at what price, is coming next, and how prices of current technologies will change. It also has significant implication on completeness of USA vs China vs the rest how AI can revolutionise the cost of introducing new products.
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Pressing problem: Perspective on immigration in America & other developed countries.
I just watched a video I found disturbing on CNN arguing the case that America is a better place than most American's believe. It was disturbing not because like everywhere else, the US has imperfections, or that America is a bad place, but because it felt like the commentor, and member of the press, was not focused on interests of the people of America but considered only commercial interests when evaluating the direction in which the country should be headed. In looking at the instincts of the free press even in a leading country like America, there may be valuable insights is to what is wrong across the planet.
Influence: There’s no free lunch and they use your data to make you pay.
It can seem all those tech companies are so dumb giving away services for free. I recently read another comment containing the "I don't want Google getting more of my data to sell" and it reminded me of the question, 'why is your data valuable?' people too rarely ask. The common myth is that Facebook and Google etc want your data so they can sell it, but even with companies that do sell your data, it still requires someone to turn data into money, and enough money to fund the "free" services of the tech companies and allow them enough spare to make profits beyond anything seen in the world previously. So how does the data turn into so much money? There is no such thing as a free lunch. Google and Facebook etc make their money from advertising, not from selling data, and unless they use can the data to persuade you to buy products at prices inflated by advertisers paying part of the sale price to Facebook/Google etc, they would lose money. Your data is used to inflate the cost of living and earn votes for politicians with an agenda that gives them a budget to spend. They (Google/Facebook etc) don't want to sell your data, but the reality, is more sinister: they use it to have to change your thinking, so more of your money will go to make them richer.
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