🔮 Open source; training AI; remote working & agglomeration; Filecoin; silent Clubhouse & Soviet space weapons ++ #310
Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.
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💾 The Fraunhofer Institute appraised the value of opensource in the EU at €63 billion per year, or 0.4% of GDP. Marginal investments could easily take that to €100bn per annum. 260,000 of the 3m software developers in the bloc (which included the UK at the time of the research) are involved in opensource. Every full-time equivalent employee developing opensource generates four times more GDP. What is working in Europe, is working on Mars: “This the first time…