The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Antitrust activity was rare since administrations generally preferred industry-government cooperation (and, during the early New Deal, economic planning and industry codes of fair competition ), over robust antitrust enforcement. This investment gap, one study found , is driven by industry leaders who have higher profit margins.

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