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The position of tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook is under increasing scrutiny, and for good reason. Both their political power and market power have in many ways outgrown our conventional governmental structures. Albeit formally…

The words of Charles Dickens written over a century and a half ago, well before mass electricity and with coal still powering London, are remarkably suitable to the state of the tech sector, and of Western “big tech” players in particular,…

Lo scorso settembre, proprio mentre Donald Trump incontrava a New York il suo “dittatore preferito” – così aveva definito poche settimane prima dell’incontro Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – in Egitto partiva un giro di vite innescato dalle inattese…

Though all businesses depend on economies of scale (whether on the supply side or the demand side), learning-by-doing is crucial, particularly to high-tech enterprises. Learning is indeed essential and requires investments in data…

“Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT,” President Donald Trump tweeted some time ago. He added, “I see it all the time in many products.” Of course he does: The…