A presentation given to Swiss Foundation's annual symposium, to explore what role foundations could play to complement governments and businesses in the quest to reinvent society.
19. Laurent Haug
Facebook knows you’re gay before your mother does
Research shows that your Facebook Likes reveal
a lot more about you than you think, including
your age, race, politics, and sexual preference.
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20. Laurent Haug
In March 2014, the Russian
Strategic Missile Forces
announced that mobile robots
would be standing guard over five
ballistic missile installations. These
robots can detect and destroy
targets, without human
involvement.
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Armed Russian robocops to defend missile bases
24. Tim O’Reilly
Policymakers have to choose between
protecting the past from the future, or
protecting the future from the past.
25. Uber, LeCab And Others Now Have To Wait 15
Minutes Before Picking You Up In France
26. More than seven years before Apple rolled out
the iPhone, [the Nokia design team] showed a
phone with a color touch screen set above a
single button. The device was shown locating a
restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering
lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly
developed another alluring product: a tablet
computer with a wireless connection and touch
screen—all features today of the hot-selling
Apple iPad. […]
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Consumers never saw either device. The
gadgets were casualties of a corporate culture
that lavished funds on research but squandered
opportunities to bring the innovations it produced
to market.
28. Laurent Haug
Fast Company: Short-Term Thinking Is Our Biggest Problem
While problems and issues, like the global-
warming crisis and the energy-water nexus,
become more complex and require longer
time frames to solve, the West is becoming
increasingly shortsighted.
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37. In 1862, Lincoln authorized sweeping
control over the American telegraph
infrastructure for Edwin Stanton, his
secretary of war. Telegraphs were re-
routed through his office, and Stanton
used his power to spy on Americans,
arrest journalists, and even control what
was or wasn't sent.
How Lincoln used the telegraph office to
spy on citizens long before the NSA