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Exploding Old Contexts With AI

According to IBM, we produce 2.5 exabytes of data each day. This is equivalent to 250,000 Libraries of Congress or 90 years of HD video —…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

On Sarin And Cyberwar

The horror that unfolded Tuesday after the Assad regime dropped sarin nerve gas on the city of Khan Sheikhun, Syria, was like a nightmare…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

The Ultimate Empathy Machine: VR And Social

“In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit…A pale-skinned pop culture-obsessed geek…I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

Highways Jammed With Broken Heroes

The American romance with the automobile is the stuff of legend. Seldom has a product of mechanical engineering been as obsessed over by…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

To Zero and Back Again: The Coming Revolution In AI

“Perhaps the most important consequence of the Internet, at least from a business perspective, [is] the reduction of the cost of…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

The Rise Of Autonomous Agents (And The End Of Advertising)

“If you don’t know me by now, you will never never never know me.” — Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

The Voice, Unbundled

Forget about Millennials. Anyone trying to understand the future of media and technology should observe what the children do.

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

Artful Redirection: Food Tech Takes On Food Media

Anyone with even a passing interest in health and nutrition can be forgiven for thinking the mainstream media just doesn’t know what it’s…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

The Anxiety of Authenticity — Or, New Ways of Seeing

Consumers spend an overwhelming amount of time in environments where brands are not always welcome. As good as the ad experiences are on…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

CPG And The Lure Of Direct-to-Consumer

For anyone in the CPG industry still unclear about the power of direct-to-consumer models, Unilever’s July purchase of Dollar Shave Club…

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

MDC Ventures

MDC Ventures

Early-stage #venture capital arm of @mdcventures. Investing in #tech #startups disrupting the #advertising, #media and #marketing industry

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