The End of the Beginning

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Summary

El vídeo analiza la evolución del sector tecnológico, marcando el fin de la era de la simple conectividad ('el fin del principio') y el inicio de una fase centrada en la integración profunda de internet en sectores tradicionales. Se explica cómo la madurez del acceso móvil permite ahora abordar mercados masivos como el retail, la salud, el transporte y las finanzas mediante la implementación de nuevas capas tecnológicas: el machine learning y las criptomonedas, que ofrecen herramientas de escala y descentralización nunca antes vistas.

Chapters

  1. 0:00The Internet Access Story
  2. 1:48Retail and E-commerce Landscape
  3. 5:52Global Industrialization and Technology
  4. 11:31Full Stack Business Models
  5. 22:15Software Eating Different Industries
  6. 26:40FinTech and Money Transformation
  7. 29:08Drug Discovery and Healthcare
  8. 31:54Machine Learning and Crypto Layers

Topics covered

  • Transición de la era de acceso a la era de uso
  • Oportunidades en mercados masivos no digitales

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Transcript excerpt

so I thought this was a young a good way of thinking about where we are today to talk about the end of the beginning because it struck me that we've been looking at charts like this for most of the last 20 years they always go up and to the right and now we're getting to the point that we're kind of finishing now the access story is reaching the end because we've connected three quarters of people on earth and we're going to connect all of the rest and as we go forward though the other part of the story isn't close to being finished the access story is finished but the use story is just starting to begin and it feels like that's what the next 20 years is about and so most people are online but most of the money is not and as we move towards addressing that we address any problems and we tackle harder markets and we probably change those markets a lot more than some of the markets we've a…