Global Tech International Affairs
Internet companies are now central to the growing geopolitical battle for influence between the US and China. even as China supports and promotes its own companies around the world, the US is in effect beginning to suppress ours, with antitrust enforcement looming for both Google and Facebook. How will this battle play out and what does it mean for U.S. soft power and global influence? More
Bio & Life Sciences The Pandemic
Some leaders saw that flattening the curve wouldn’t work against the pandemic. Others were reluctant to test at all. Scientific data made the difference between responses that worked, and those that didn’t. More
Business Healthcare Innovation Techonomy Events
Now is the time to take an urgent and holistic look at where the country is headed. We think of both “health” and “wealth” in a broad sense–what will make the nation and its people healthier, and: what should we mean by “wealth” in an age cursed by deep inequality? More
Healthcare Innovation The Pandemic
A major tech-infused healthcare movement has been in the works for more than a decade. COVID just kicked it into high gear. Here are ten things you need to think about. More
Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare The Pandemic
‘Everything is unprecedented about the pandemic, and genomics is no exception,’ says an infectious disease expert. Genome sequencing has enabled scientists to track the virus, study its origins, confirm reinfection, and get to know more about it than has been learned about any organism in such a short time. More
Analytics & Data Partner Insights
Companies that can harness data best for insights will be the ones that win. But doing that is hardly simple. So Techonomy recently brought together a group of senior corporate leaders to discuss managing and finding insights from data. More
Education Partner Insights The Pandemic
Schools across the country are opening for the Fall, but COVID is transforming everything. Techonomy gathers three educators and childhood experts to help parents and all of us make sense of the moment. More
Democracy Media & Marketing Policy
As Facebook and Twitter begin to flag more hate speech and misinformation, new social media hangouts step up to fill the void, for those who don’t like such censorship. More
Bio & Life Sciences Community Insights Global Tech
COVID-19 is a wake-up call for institutional renewal and reform. The only way to face the uncertainties of the future is to build more, stronger public-private partnerships, and on a global basis. More
Community Insights Sustainable Development Goals Tech & Society
When businesses imagine how they might do twice as much, or ten times as much, with the same money or people, they think about using technology. Why is it that the nonprofit sector behaves differently? More
Business Innovation Leadership Partner Insights
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated three years of digital and cultural transformation into three months. To deploy a transformation strategy with speed and scale, there are three key areas organizations must focus on. More
The value of one bitcoin has more than doubled to $11,200 since its low in mid-March. That is just one of many signs the blockchain economy (aka “crypto”) continues to evolve and roil finance and tech. Here’s another: this week JPMorgan Chase took equity in a hot blockchain-focused applications company called ConsenSys. The deal also […] More
Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare Innovation
Several companies are developing technology that can read your vital signs (and screen for COVID) via your smartphone camera simply by looking at your face. More
India is artfully positioning itself to be a beneficiary of the tech conflict now accelerating between the U.S. and China. Reliance Jio, a very Indian sort of national champion, may benefit most. More
Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare
The president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science says the pandemic’s toll on non-COVID science is ‘a huge hit.’. Many research studies shut down midway, possibly turning results into a total loss. More
Global Tech International Affairs
The American and Chinese tech and internet industries have long been intertwined, but recent moves by the Trump administration aggressively seek to sully those ties. So what comes next? More
Media & Marketing Net Giants Policy
If you want to see the future of technology and policy, look no further than digital gaming. Not only are they at the cutting edge in consumer behavior, gaming apps like Fortnite are now in the middle of a national debate about state-of-the-art tech regulation. More
Democracy Government Tech & Society
“I am confident that we will have record turn out and our results will be accurate. What I am concerned about is well-funded, well-organized strategic efforts to deny that reality to the public to serve political agendas and partisan goals.” – Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson Never in memory have the mechanics of a […] More
A Bitcoin is worth $12,000, blockchain-native assets are growing, Etherium creates its own opportunities, and even Facebook wants in. Two articulate experts explain what’s going on. More
Bio & Life Sciences Healthcare
For both clinical and consumer markets, genomic testing has a lot to offer — but it isn’t always used where it could be valuable, and people don’t understand it well enough. As a result, demand is dwindling in some areas. More
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