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Opinion: My Advice To The World's Entrepreneurs: Copy And Steal, The Silicon Valley Way
In a videoconference hosted by Indian start-up website Inc42, I gave Indian entrepreneurs some advice that startled them. I said that instead of trying to invent new things, they should copy and steal all the ideas they can from China, Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. A billion Indians coming online through inexpensive smartphones offer In...
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Opinion: The End For Indian Outsourcers - Or A Chance For Rebirth?
The Indian information technology industry generates $150 billion in revenue but is facing an existential crisis largely of its own making because it became complacent and overconfident even as technologies and markets changed.
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Trump Immigration Ban Is Harmful to the Tech Economy
Study after study has found that immigrants are more likely to start job-creating businesses, not only in tech but across the economy.
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Opinion: Silicon Valley Should Learn From India's Moves Toward Less-Cash
India may have leapfrogged the U.S. technology industry with simple and practical innovations and massive grunt work. It has built a digital infrastructure that will soon process billions more transactions than bitcoin ever has.
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Opinion: What Stephen Hawking Gets Right And Wrong About 'The Most Dangerous Time For Our Planet'
Stephen Hawking made a bold headline last week: "This is the most dangerous time for our planet."
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I Already Live in the Future - and So Should You
The pace of technological change is rapidly accelerating, and those changes are coming to you very soon.
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Why Elon Musk's Crazy Plans for Tesla Are Perfectly Sane
Tesla may well stumble because it is trying to do too much too fast, but Musk's vision is sound.
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The Amazing Artificial Intelligence We Were Promised Is Coming, Finally
In the fields in which it is trained, AI is now exceeding the capabilities of humans.
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Trump's Demand That Apple Must Make iPhones in the US Actually Isn't That Crazy
China's labour, real estate, and energy costs have increased to the point that they are comparable to some parts of the United States.
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Tesla Is the Spark That Apple Needs
Apple needs another Steve Jobs to reinvent itself otherwise it will join the ranks of HP and Compaq - it may find him in Elon Musk.
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Opinion: Tesla Is The Spark That Apple Needs
Apple's dismal earnings announcement shows why it badly needs to rethink its innovation model and leadership. Its last breakthrough innovation was the iPhone -- which was released in 2007. Since then, Apple has simply been tweaking its componentry, adding faster processors and more advanced sensors, and playing with its size -- making it bigger in ...
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Technology Has Changed the Patent World
Do we even need patents in an era in which technology is advancing so rapidly that it makes entire computing platforms obsolete?
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Opinion: Facebook Didn't Understand Culture Of India
Facebook is being compared to the treacherous East India Company, and director Marc Andreessen is being accused of being anti-Indian, a racist, and worse. It won't surprise me if Indian activists launch a "Quit India" movement to expel Facebook from India, modelled on Mahatma Gandhi's efforts against the British in 1942. All of this is because of a...
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Silicon Valley Needs to Lead a Smart and Civil Conversation on Inequality
There are very few issues that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton all agree on. One of them is the growing problem of inequality in income and wealth.
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How I Realized The Incredible Impact That Great Bosses Have
"I don't care if you have to take drugs, you have to build it in six months," said my boss, Khurshed Birdie, when I told him that he was on drugs if he thought my team could create a software development toolset in less than three years.
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Opinion: My Advice To The World's Entrepreneurs: Copy And Steal, The Silicon Valley Way
In a videoconference hosted by Indian start-up website Inc42, I gave Indian entrepreneurs some advice that startled them. I said that instead of trying to invent new things, they should copy and steal all the ideas they can from China, Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. A billion Indians coming online through inexpensive smartphones offer In...
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Opinion: The End For Indian Outsourcers - Or A Chance For Rebirth?
The Indian information technology industry generates $150 billion in revenue but is facing an existential crisis largely of its own making because it became complacent and overconfident even as technologies and markets changed.
-
Trump Immigration Ban Is Harmful to the Tech Economy
Study after study has found that immigrants are more likely to start job-creating businesses, not only in tech but across the economy.
-
Opinion: Silicon Valley Should Learn From India's Moves Toward Less-Cash
India may have leapfrogged the U.S. technology industry with simple and practical innovations and massive grunt work. It has built a digital infrastructure that will soon process billions more transactions than bitcoin ever has.
-
Opinion: What Stephen Hawking Gets Right And Wrong About 'The Most Dangerous Time For Our Planet'
Stephen Hawking made a bold headline last week: "This is the most dangerous time for our planet."
-
I Already Live in the Future - and So Should You
The pace of technological change is rapidly accelerating, and those changes are coming to you very soon.
-
Why Elon Musk's Crazy Plans for Tesla Are Perfectly Sane
Tesla may well stumble because it is trying to do too much too fast, but Musk's vision is sound.
-
The Amazing Artificial Intelligence We Were Promised Is Coming, Finally
In the fields in which it is trained, AI is now exceeding the capabilities of humans.
-
Trump's Demand That Apple Must Make iPhones in the US Actually Isn't That Crazy
China's labour, real estate, and energy costs have increased to the point that they are comparable to some parts of the United States.
-
Tesla Is the Spark That Apple Needs
Apple needs another Steve Jobs to reinvent itself otherwise it will join the ranks of HP and Compaq - it may find him in Elon Musk.
-
Opinion: Tesla Is The Spark That Apple Needs
Apple's dismal earnings announcement shows why it badly needs to rethink its innovation model and leadership. Its last breakthrough innovation was the iPhone -- which was released in 2007. Since then, Apple has simply been tweaking its componentry, adding faster processors and more advanced sensors, and playing with its size -- making it bigger in ...
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Technology Has Changed the Patent World
Do we even need patents in an era in which technology is advancing so rapidly that it makes entire computing platforms obsolete?
-
Opinion: Facebook Didn't Understand Culture Of India
Facebook is being compared to the treacherous East India Company, and director Marc Andreessen is being accused of being anti-Indian, a racist, and worse. It won't surprise me if Indian activists launch a "Quit India" movement to expel Facebook from India, modelled on Mahatma Gandhi's efforts against the British in 1942. All of this is because of a...
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Silicon Valley Needs to Lead a Smart and Civil Conversation on Inequality
There are very few issues that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton all agree on. One of them is the growing problem of inequality in income and wealth.
-
How I Realized The Incredible Impact That Great Bosses Have
"I don't care if you have to take drugs, you have to build it in six months," said my boss, Khurshed Birdie, when I told him that he was on drugs if he thought my team could create a software development toolset in less than three years.
