# Big directions in TECH

## big questions - [2009 : WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?](https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-will-change-everything)

[THE END OF ANALYTIC SCIENCE](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11129)

[THE CREDIT CRUNCH FOR MATERIALISM](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11002)

## 2021

[ARK - 2020 Big Ideas](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/5159/ARK_E2_80_93Invest_BigIdeas_2021.pdf)

## challenges to giants

- [Ten big global challenges technology could solve](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3200/Ten%2Bbig%2Bglobal%2Bchallenges.pdf)
None is easy, but all are incredibly important.

[The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/stripe-payments-apple-amazon-facebook)
Patrick and John Collison have democratised online payments – and reshaped the digital economy in the process


[Superstar companies also feel the threat of disruption](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2494/Superstar%2Bcompanies%2Balso%2Bfeel%2Bthe%2Bthreat%2Bof%2Bdisruption%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)
RANA FOROOHAR -- Turnover at the top means market competition may work better than we thought

## Encumbents

- dec 2018 - Microsoft has the highest equity valuation in the world

2007 [Microsoft is dead](http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html) versus [Why we are not afraid of Microsoft](https://freshdesk.com/product-updates/why-we-are-not-afraid-of-microsoft-blog/)

## Fake news and large political consequences (Brexit, etc.)

[What Is To Be Done? Safeguarding Democratic Governance In The Age Of Network Platforms](https://www.hoover.org/research/what-be-done-safeguarding-democratic-governance-age-network-platforms) by Niall Ferguson

# Parents

* Strategic TechnologiesFuturology - T&M

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