🔮📶 Internet trends; Facebook’s cryptocurrency; Uber; zero emmissions; AI & open societies; Snapchat, GPS & gut microbes++ #222

Exponential View

Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society 

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For those of you who missed our briefing with Sarah Hunter, the Director of Public Policy at X, find our notes and the recording of the full presentation right here.

Dept of the near future

🗯️ Mary Meeker produces her 22nd Internet Trends report, more than 300-slides worth. Some highlights:

• It’s getting harder to reach new internet users,

• Global smartphone shipments fell by 4% in 2018, compared to 0% in 2017,

• 53% of the world’s …