The Economics of Exponential Organisations

“I’ve come to detest the word ‘innovation’ because people throw it around without knowing what it really means,” says Singularity University Founding Executive Director Salim Ismail. “Anything really innovative is really disruptive. If its’ not, it’s incremental – that’s just improvement. Disruption radically changes the game”. Disruption is something Ismail has a deep knowledge of, as Singularity University was established […]

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Homo Sapiens 2.0

When IBM’s Deep Blue won its match against chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, it became the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating (he’d won the original match, a year earlier, 4-2) and demanded a rematch, but IBM declined and retired Deep […]

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