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

John Battelle's Searchblog

Candidates include biotech and bioinformatics (the core technologies behind the COVID vaccine), blockchain (though I’m certain bitcoin will have at least one of its several crashes this year), and lithium batteries (giving us hope on climate change and driving my otherwise random prediction on gas-powered cars, below). Predictions 2012.

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Spring 2019 National Meeting

Data Matters

As a general matter, the latest exposure drafts provide for further deference to the terms of the Covered Agreements and limit the application of commissioner discretion to the extent that the exercise of such discretion is inconsistent with the Covered Agreements. reinsurer that is not licensed in the state of domicile of a U.S.

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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 2012. 2012: How I Did. But as I wrote earlier this year, we must not forget the Internet when we remember the things. 2015: How I Did.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

Withdrawal from the EU means that we stand to lose the institutional platform from which we have exercised that influence. It would no doubt be totally unfair to suggest any smoke-and-mirrors exercise to confuse the fact of the centrality of EU law now and in the future. It seems odd to have more clarity post Brexit than pre-Brexit.

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