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...But the job is not so much world domination as extortion through the threat of disrupting nations’ and corporations’ activities....
...This is in part because of practicality — it’s not sustainable to keep foundational technology in the hands of just a few large corporations — and in part because of the record of open sourcing....
...Wearing helmets marked with Russian flags, the men leap from tanks to a Daft Punk soundtrack made for a sci-fi movie, brandishing Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers....
...Specifically, Harris cites the metaphor of sci-fi movies to suggest that, “You can think of social media as really first contact between humanity and AI.”...
...Not a single element of modern life remains unridiculed: government, media, artificial intelligence, power-hungry corporations, New Age therapists....
...SCI Ecommerce, a Singapore-based group ranked number 29 on this year’s list, was founded in 2014 by two former employees of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba....
...Murad Ahmed, technology news editor Bit of recency bias, but enjoyed the latest from John Carreyrou in The New York Times on Netflix’s lost sci-fi series....
...Legal risk looks zero sum, at least at the corporation level, since the deal’s reverse termination clause capped Musk’s potential damages at $1bn....
...Amazingly, Weinzierl suggests, Luxembourg is already positioning itself to be for space companies what Delaware is for US corporations looking to avoid taxes. This is unacceptable....
...She served as the first woman on the boards of Sony, Bridgestone and Mitsubishi Corporation Marina Silva Environment minister by Michelle Bachelet The world is facing a triple crisis of climate change...
...The idea is usually the preserve of sci-fi. But talking with Wilsdon, I began to consider how far climate philanthropy had changed....
...But Russians themselves will tell you: no, the sci-fi idea of instant capitalist democracy came from inside Russia.”...
...I’ll leave out the sci-fi and fantasy recommendations here but feel free to email!...
...Joe Lycett I’m thrilled to be in this sort of sci-fi building that the FT is. Claer Barrett How does it feel to be inside the Financial Times?...
...London after a disaster known as the Meltdown is a divided city, with two corporations ruling its halves either side of the Thames....
...It opposes the utopian ideals of early 20th-century sci-fi: here technology is not a great democratiser improving human lives, but instead a new line separating the haves and have-nots....
...The sci-fi universe of last year’s The Outer Worlds is more sophisticated, painting a galaxy where the Halcyon Holdings Corporation owns everything; citizens live as debt-slaves who cheerily punctuate everyday...
...Such seemingly awesome and ominous technology was the creation of the Simulmatics Corporation, a long-forgotten tech company that pioneered the use of data science in politics and, according to Lepore, in...
...Vancouver duo Minimal Violence’s debut album is based around the idea of a futuristic corporation with access to people’s dream lives....
...As a cosmetic treatment, light therapy is delivered via a mask or a sci-fi looking lamp positioned close to — but not touching — the face....
...Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling agrees with Greenfield....
...“It’s overwhelming because the corporation is so huge, but my interlocutors are very few....
...Its interior is a sci-fi swirl of stairs, a spiralling geometry of wonderful complexity. The client, a health insurer, demanded that architects Hassell provide an exemplar healthy building....
...It told sci-fi tales set in the far future — which at that point meant any date after 1999....
...Ms Mac Cormac built all those patiently and helped California enact its social purpose corporation legislation and Delaware its public benefit corporation system....
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