From 600+ conversations with the world’s leading thinkers.
You could take a sword from one game and move it to another. In the events industry, you can imagine having event tickets operating as these collectible, persistent, immutable objects you can carry between markets, with different benefits… potentially even being redeemable against real-world assets.
At first, the 100 thousand million, million keys you would need to search might appear impossible, but Moore's law was increasing processing power and we quickly figured that if you could search a million keys per second on a chip, and you bought a million chips, you could search a million, million keys per second.
ISIS and Al Qaeda don't radicalise anybody, what they do is tip people over the edge. The online phenomenon just speeds it up.
I would describe games as an art form centred around systems. Viewing the world as a system means perceiving it as a collection of interconnected elements. These elements interact in a way that both enables and restricts themselves and each other. Essentially, what is observed is the collective behaviour of these elements as they unfold over time, creating a range of possibilities.
Remote work has turned the lights on in the room, it's allowing us to see the cracks and cobwebs, and we can never switch that light off again.
It feels great to have the iPad launched into the world...it's going to be a game changer.
It's the convergence of these technologies that creates waves on top of waves of capability, which will change our world – every industry, our economy, our government, our health, our families… everything is beginning to change.
There's 6,000 times more energy hitting the surface of the Earth than we consume as a species. The poorest countries in the world are also the sunniest, which is a powerful asset.
Today, we are asking the opposite question – will luxury brands continue to be sold offline? 20 years after we started, when people were suspicious about whether luxury brands could be sold on the internet, the opposite question is now the big consideration!
By the time he was still scrolling through his options, I simply showed him the answer on my phone. He was taken aback, admitting that this was a far superior approach. This experience exemplifies the revolutionary nature of answer engines.
I fully believe the future of financial infrastructure will be built on blockchain. We handle around US$5 billion per day for all transactions, around 3x more than PayPal. This is only the beginning.
You cannot genuinely connect with another human being through technology. You can only connect with other human beings through the mind, and through love, but technology can serve the process.