🔮🎉 Third birthday special: Facebook’s problems; Uber’s crash; the world with AI everywhere; waste in India & sexual identities++ #158

Dept of the near future

🔮 What will society look like when AI is everywhere? (Remember: it is hard to predict the future. Here is what those in 1918 predicted 2018 would be like.)

🏗️  Physical Data is better than Digital Data: in the age of AI, real estate matters more than ever.(Although, one set of models suggest that self-driving cars will encourage urban sprawl.)

⚕️ China’s Tencent is building a remarkable healthcare ecosystem ranging from online consultations to insurance and payment products.

💥 An automation boom might be followed by a bust. The speed of change may matter most of all; a slower pace of change will give economies more time to adjust MUST READ. (Within two decades it may be cheaper to use robots than human workers in Africa.)

🚨 On the Uber crash: Brad Templeton provides a detailed assessment of what went wrong (excellent read).

Dept of birthdays 🎂

This issue marks Exponential View’s third birthday.

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