🔮 Long-lived Apple; universal basic mobility; the IoT threat; proof-of-work's efficiency; the new social contract; sperm, bananas, voodoo++ #182

Dept of the near future

🍎 Horace Dediu’s stellar analysis on Apple’s event this week: “The purpose of Apple as a firm is to create and preserve customers and to create and preserve products. This is fundamental and not fully recognized.” In fact, he argues this “hardware-as-platform and hardware-as-subscription model… no other hardware company can match…