Tecnologia muda.
As perguntas ficam.

Some songs struck us so intensely they became part of who we are. “All flowers in time bend towards the sun” is one of those songs. One song I can listen to over and over. Not just because it’s beautiful, but because behind the song, there is a story I have watched, in time.

Despite all valid warnings, one of the oldest concerns with Artificial Intelligence (AI) being widely discussed in movies and books is how far can the machines go in replacing humans. And we, the humans, always argued that machines can replace us in heavy body tasks and calculus but never in on the last frontier: creativity and cognitive functions.

I always supported the idea that creativity is not more than the ability to remember, analyze, and recognize patterns limited to our own perception, which can be interpreted as good or bad “taste”.

And this pattern learning and recognition not being exclusive to humans, they are the perfect domain of computers, machine learning, and AI.

We live in an amazing time with technology creating unbelievable opportunities to all the present and future generations.

The phone in your pocket has more computing power than the computers we used to send a person to the moon.

Robots and AI are experimenting insanely wild developments.

Healthcare and current developments in personal genomics and personalized medicine speak for themselves.

Disclaimer, the title is not mine. It’s actually from Thomas Edison.

As any normal person, I like to talk about ideas, exchanging creative thoughts and thinking about the future. When the ideias are good, it’s inspiring.

But in this new Fashionable Entrepreneur world, I feel that we are praising the wrong kind of principles and values.

During my life path as a supposed entrepreneur I’ve always pointed out that my biggest fear is to, at some point, lose the ability to see the big picture, to stop connecting the dots and see the future.

Everything else may block or delay but it’s part of the journey.

I call this fear “FoBO” or “Fear of Being Overtaken”.

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Nowadays we got technology for granted. We don’t think anymore about who invented what and how. We know digital is binary and that mobile uses waves but, I would say that’s pretty much it.

Well, the person responsible for starting the personal computer era, Wesley A. Clark, died last week at his home in Brooklyn. He was 88.

Who says enterprise software is boring?

The attendees and speakers at SaaStr Annual 2016 bring Startup L Jackson’s brilliant lyrics to life! L Startup lesson.

200 million

There’s definitely a gender gap… 200 million fewer women have a mobile phone than men.

4.7 billion How many people use mobile? The number of unique mobile subscribers stood at 4.7 billion people at the end of 2015 – that’s 63 percent of the entire global population.

Let’s face it: everything changes. In the past things were slower. Nowadays, they are faster and faster. Everything changes. Everything evolves. That’s normal. In the on demand and real time economy, tomorrow is not only another day. Tomorrow is a brand new day.

So whenever I hear that something is ending, at least as we know it, I think: so what?

Change and innovation don’t usually happen in a blitz! Usually they are a result of a combination of variables at the right moment with creativity or, sometimes, just a sense of opportunity. But it’s rarely the end of something.

The end of Facebook? We heard some voices about it a few years ago. The end of vinyl? Yep, people talked about it more than 20 years ago. Oh, by the way, remember Google Wave? Yes, and the end of email! Uber and the end of Taxis! And of course, Internet privacy, tracking, cookies and the end of Internet Marketing (or advertising)!

So, the end of Internet Marketing (as we know it)? What does it mean?

Jumping to the conclusion: Absolutely nothing!