“IBM Research predicts five innovations that will change our lives within five years. What if, within five years, the food supply chain was simpler, safer, and less wasteful?” |learn more
Scientists may have achieved first ‘in body’ gene editing.
“Scientists think they have achieved the first gene editing inside the body, altering DNA in adults to try and treat a disease.” | learn more
How can you change from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset?
Growth mindsets are a belief that today’s abilities are just the beginning. Sometimes I struggle with this and revert to a fixed mindset. So I did some googling for help. This article was good, though of course not a one-step cure – I’m still a work in progress. | learn more
How robots and drones will change retail forever.
“What if you could store and deliver goods as easily as data? Amazon, Walmart and others are using AI and robotics to transform everything from appliance shopping to grocery delivery. Welcome to the physical cloud.” | learn more
Healthcare industry bankruptcy activity on the rise.
Petition11 is a great newsletter that covers “disruption from the vantage point of the disrupted”. That’s right – they cover the distressed companies that are or soon will end up in bankruptcy court. This week: Trident Holding Company LLC, a Maryland-based provider of bedside diagnostic and other services. I learned something: short skilled nursing facilities, long home health care. Scroll down to “New of the Week”. | learn more
JPMorgan Coin vs Ripple vs SWIFT.
This news of the bank’s new digital currency for cross-border payments has been reported in many places. I’m choosing this American Banker article partly because it’s finance-industry appropriate, but mostly because it quotes our very own subscriber Nelson Rosario a bunch of times. | learn more
Understanding Web 3 – a user controlled internet.
Coinbase’s blog breaks down the layers of the new stack for the web in enough detail to be technical and yet understandable to us commoners. It gets pretty nerdy, so only click through if you’re really into this. | learn more
How Sam Yagan bounced back from a startup failure to a $400M IPO.
This Forbes piece doesn’t cover recent news, but it is a neat profile of one Chicago’s entrepreneurship heroes. The author interviewed Sam Yagan to learn about his history founding SparkNotes (went well), eDonkey (ended badly), and OKCupid (eventually acquired to Match.com, where Sam became CEO of and took public). | learn more
On digital media companies vs networks.
Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighty Networks, discusses how the internet has fundamentally changed business models for media. Specifically, she’s saying that audiences are out and networks are in. I think she makes a great point! | learn more
Deepfakes go bigger with machine-generated copy.
Axios reports on the new technology from OpenAI that enables machines to write human-sounding prose. Combined with Deepfake technology to create artificial video and audio, “It could be used to influence people one-on-one on a massive scale, rather than distributing a small number of forgeries widely.” | learn more