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. ” Modified behavior.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 89

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. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

To create those conditions regulators relied on the tools given to them during the first era of antitrust, from 1900–1920. The authorities accepted the increased risks from concentrated telecommunications, financial, and radio industries, among others, for the prospect of future efficiencies and innovation.

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Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8