USD Liquidity and ICT4D/AI4D in Tier 5 Countries
ICT4D therefore needs to build the material and institutional foundations of participation in the global digital economy. These include affordable broadband, reliable electricity, mobile financial services, digital identity where appropriate, cybersecurity, digital literacy, and sustainable models for maintaining public digital services.
Renewables Give Us Power, Batteries Give Us Control
Renewables give us clean energy, but batteries give us control. They turn a chaotic mix of weather-dependent generation into a highly precise, software-managed machine.
Beyond the China Price: Can Democrats Shape a New Industrial Strategy for the AI World?
The age of cheap Chinese labor may be ending, but the age of cheap goods is not necessarily ending with it. Rather, the source of affordability is shifting from human labor to machine intelligence. China could easily stay in the game. The next chapter of globalization may therefore be defined not by where factories are located, but by how effectively computation itself becomes a factor of production.
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 5: Generative AI Platforms for Video Synthesis
Cinema is shifting from industrial production, to computational synthesis. The camera is no longer the exclusive machine of cinema. Increasingly, the model is.
The SACT Attack: How Spreadsheet Capitalism Conquered the World
Once Substitution is complete, the other layers of SACT can take over. You cannot apply Abstraction (comparing unlike things), Symbolic Computing (formulas), or Telecommunications (speed) to a physical house. But you can apply all of them to the token of the house sitting in a spreadsheet cell.
LSEG Workspace as the Central Spreadsheet Grid for Eurodollars
LSEG Workspace is a giant live spreadsheet that organizes the eurodollar system into cells and formulas. Treasuries and Fed rates are the anchor cells. Repo, FX swaps, and offshore deposits are formula-driven references.
Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 1
This post outlines the critical importance of tech firms establishing powerful competitive advantages, particularly economies of scale, network effects, and customer captivity. Drawing from “Curse of the Mogul,” it emphasizes that success in a market’s structure depends on establishing strong barriers to entry or achieving operational efficiencies, rather than relying solely on brands, deep pockets, talent, global reach, or first-mover status.
Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 4: Generative AI for Video Synthesis
AI can now take text prompts and generate full-motion video, thanks to a new class of models called text-to-video generative AI. These models interpret natural language descriptions and produce short video clips with varying levels of realism and coherence. These instruction sets guide the AI’s generation and synthesis of “tokens” – data points that are combined into the visual sequence through various algorithmic processes.
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