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New Zealand’s Rise as a Tech Giant

Here’s an interesting look at the rising tech scene in New Zealand. This video is almost three years old. In future posts, I’ll check out where the companies and technology companies are in 2019.

Hardware Startups
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Shenzhen: China’s Future Factory

Bloomberg takes a closer look at “the Silicon Valley of China,” Shenzhen, in this interesting video. It’s hard to believe that just 40 years ago, it was a sleepy fishing village near the Hong Kong border.

Blockchain Future
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Blockchain Takes on Manhattan Real Estate

This 36.5 million dollar property has just been sliced into digital shares, and you could own a piece of it via blockchain. Could this be the future of real estate?

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on How Fragile the World is Today

I just finished listening to the audio book version of Antii-Fragile (go to this site to grab one free audio book via Data Driven) and it’s quite amazing.

Here’s the author, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, talking about how the world is no more resilient than it was before the 2008 financial crisis.

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Building a Robot to Fight Loneliness

For decades, we’ve dreamed of robots that can be our companions.

Now, Danielle Ishak is trying to build one. Named ElliQ, this robot is aimed at the elderly who live alone, and it’s in the homes of about a dozen beta testers in the Bay Area. Ishak’s task is to study these seniors’ interactions with ElliQ to make sure the robot is something they actually want. This is the fifth episode of Next Jobs, a mini-documentary series about careers of the future hosted by Bloomberg Technology’s Aki Ito.