Musing with Metis Strategy | 1
Recent Highlights in Business & Technology
Musings with Metis Strategy is a collection of recent articles at the intersection of business and technology that the Metis Strategy team found particularly interesting.
How Recent Tech Success Stories Are Disrupting Disruption Theory
Vivek Wadhwa | Singularity Hub
Clayton Christensen’s theories on disruptive innovation are now outdated. We are now in an era in which technologies such as computing, networks, sensors, artificial intelligence, and robotics are advancing exponentially and converging, thereby allowing industries to encroach on and disrupt one another.
Augmented And Virtual Reality 1.0–2016 Preview
Tim Merel | TechCrunch
With consumer virtual reality finally hitting the market, and augmented reality only 12–18 months behind, Tim Merel — founder CEO of Eyetouch Reality and Digi-Capital —provides an overview of what to expect in 2016.
Jason Silva | Shots of Awe
Join Jason Silva as he freestyles complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusses the truth and beauty of science in a form of existential jazz. This episode: The Role of Curation: “Curation is the indispensable answer to our present day information bandwidth anxiety.”
Can Elizabeth Holmes Save Her Unicorn?
Sheelah Kolhatkar & Caroline Chen | Bloomberg Business
Holmes says the company’s era of secrecy is over, and it’s inviting outsiders, including reporters, to try the tests for themselves. (For the record, the finger prick feels like a finger prick.)
The Business Case For Augmented Reality
Todd Chusid | TechCrunch
Within the next 3–5 years, we’re going to see more brands roll out AR apps to bring customers more immersive and personalized experiences.
Machine Intelligence In The Real World
Shivon Zilis | TechCrunch
In an attempt to explain the differences between how machine intelligence companies go to market, I found myself using (admittedly colorful) nicknames. It ended up being useful, so I took a moment to spell them out in more detail. The categories aren’t airtight — this is a complex space — but this framework helps us be more thoughtful about how to think about and interact with machine intelligence companies.
The Airbnb Endgame
Matt Buchanan | The Awl
As intently as CEO Brian Chesky frames the company as being in the travel business (and that may be true!), a maximal Airbnb in which everyone is sharing their home so that “every person in every country can stay with someone on Airbnb,” as he once put it, is, in effect, a privatized property allocation platform.
Messaging is just getting started
Emmet Connolly | Intercom
Messaging isn’t about text. It’s about conversations. Here’s why the simplest apps on your phone are quickly becoming the most powerful.
A letter to our daughter
Mark Zuckerberg | Facebook
In a letter to his newly born dugher — Max — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan announced the creation of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropy organization that will address “advancing human potential and promoting equality.” The couple will donate 99% of their Facebook shares — some $45 billion — to the causes such as personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.”
Verily, I Swear. Google Life Sciences Debuts a New Name
Charles Filler | STAT
Verily’s mission is bring together technology and life sciences to uncover new truths about health and disease.
Unlocking my genome: Was it worth it?
Meg Tirrell | CNBC
The first human genome took $2.7 billion and almost 15 years to complete. Now, according to Cowen analyst Doug Schenkel, genome sequencing and analysis cost around $1,400. The sequencing can be done in a few days, and analysis in a few weeks… clearly getting to a $500 genome is technologically possible, and Illumina think certainly there’s potential far beyond that.
Metis Strategy is a business and technology strategy and management consulting firm headquartered in the Washington DC metro area
- Compiled by Brandon Metzger — Associate at Metis Strategy
