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Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

John Battelle's Searchblog

But by year’s end folks will realize that antitrust suits are essentially kabuki, an exercise designed to go nowhere and maintain the status quo. Predictions 2014. 2014: How I Did. Predictions 2012. 2012: How I Did. Everyone loses their s**t, in a good way. Predictions 2018. 2018: How I Did. Predictions 2017.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

” Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Predictions 2014. 2014: How I Did. Predictions 2012. 2012: How I Did. China goes shopping. Have a great 2016, everyone!

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Prisoners' literacy and numeracy levels

CILIP

Mostly reference was made to children, such as 2/3 of prisoners have reading age of less than 11 years or 87% of prisoners can?t Despite the limitations in this approach, I was now equipped to compare the skills levels of the 2014-15 prison intake with the skills of the population as a whole. t do simple primary school maths.