The Digital Age is Changing The Rules of The Game

A reordering of geopolitical power is underway & tech is likely to be weaponised amid this shift. This has implications for its complex supply chains, IP capture, cyber warfare & more, forming new fissures along which a large part of these lines are drawn
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The accelerating & widening concern being focussed on incorporating tenets for a sustainable digital age has taken a leap forward with this agreement.

It includes plans to develop a framework for the use of electronic transferable records & more.

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Tech boards have to step up transparency & authenticity

Between shareholder proposals regarding board composition, civil rights groups urging racial equity audits & regulators grilling execs, big tech firms will increasingly need to align words & actions

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An interesting counterfactual to the automation vs. human labour trend in retail....perhaps automation will see limitations on rollout within this sector

Equally interesting is the blurring of distinction between retail stores & fulfilment centres

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FB’s Oversight Board has thrown the hot potato of Trump’s account reinstatement right back to FB.
Of more interest is data on impact from the account suspension: highlighting the fact that the message is less important than the megaphone that carries it.
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Jack Ma's is an cautionary tale to all successful entrepreneurs who become surrounded by adulation. This 'echo chamber' may have distorted Ma's ideas about his standing with the CCP
It's also why robust governance is critical to balancing out founder views
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Author & quant marketer @eric_seufert believes Apple’s iOS privacy changes will dent FB’s revenues by a c.7% impairment in Q2 2021.
The outcome will in effect be a vote on ‘targeted advertising' & further entrenches the tension between tech business models
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This is v1.0 of AI regulation and we expect an ongoing evolution, as with all pioneering innovations.

The tiering of AI algorithms based on social impacts is quite interesting, as was the ‘crowd sourcing’ approach of the EC.

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While it’s great that Bezos is trying to make Amazon “Earth’s best employer & safest place to work,” but there's a bigger issue looming: the rate it's automating operations

If there were a need to reduce Amazon's workforce, would the Robots or workers go?
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Tech platforms are innovating new classes of ‘workers.’ While the industrial age model of full time employment is not viable, neither is the binary alternative of ‘contractor.’

We expect to see a continued innovation in new classifications of workers

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