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Send a text Gaming makes a lot of money. Now, Tech wants a piece of it 🎮 In the last decade, the gaming industry has been smashing Hollywood’s earnings out of the park! Just in 2021, the Global “Games Market” had a whopping $180BN in revenue. In fact, Gaming is bigger than Hollywood and the music industry combined. Top games are earning more than the big blockbusters. The top sellers include Gran...

Send a text There's been a data revolution in sports in the past few years. From the Oakland A’s & Houston Rockets in American sports to European football heavyweights like Liverpool, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, sports teams have increasingly caught the data bug. They have increasingly sharpened their technology focus, and have begun collecting huge swarths of data to not only analyze pa...

Send a text Cyber Attacks were shockingly brazen in 2021, targeting everything from hospitals, schools, to critical infrastructure at an alarming rate. As more of the economy goes digital, individuals, businesses, and even governments are increasingly vulnerable to cybercriminals. Major corporations such as Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA had to dole out millions and millions of dollars in ransom pa...

Send a text 2021 was a breakthrough year for crypto assets We’ve seen Bitcoin hit multiple new all-time high prices and more institutional buy-in from major companies. Coinbase went public.  Even the U.S. government has increasingly expressed interest in new regulations for cryptocurrency. All the while, people’s interest in crypto has skyrocketed: it’s a hot topic not only among investors but in...

Send a text Throughout 2021, a lot has changed. But one thing has been constant: Inflation.   As COVID still continues to take a toll on global supply chains, we’re also seeing the most significant changes in prices across multiple industries all of last year. Just in THC alone, we talked about everything from house prices hitting all-time highs to grocery bills skyrocketing. In December, a 7% ris...

Send a text A lot of our favorite stories from 2021 revolve around the fact that the continued public health crisis have pushed technology companies, consumers, and governments to innovate immensely. In Part 1 of our 2021 Tech Recap,  we walk through the big changes that took place in three fields - specifically food & restaurants, the space industry, and cloud computing. With the food and bev...

Send a text Hey! The Things Have Changed Podcast Team is taking a winter break! We hope that you have the time to do the same! We're going to use this time to reflect about the most interesting stories of 2021 so that we can share that with you on January 9th! Stay tuned and stay curious! Much love from the Things Have Changed Podcast team! Support the show Things Have Changed

Send a text These days nearly every company is, or is in the process of becoming, a tech company. Retailers have mobile apps and e-commerce platforms. Grocery stores no longer expect customers to come inside to shop — they can place an order online and pick it up outside the store, or have it delivered right to their homes. Take McDonald's for instance - McD is more than just a burger joint t...

Send a text In a world of extreme climate change, the traditional way of producing food is simply not enough to feed the world of the future. As less and less arable land is available, humans have to get creative with how we farm... and the Dutch may have a solution. They've employed a tried and tested methodology to solve their food problems: Greenhouses!  The Netherlands is small, and dense...

Send a text Close to a third of the world's adults are unbanked. Crypto aims to solve this disparity ! The mission of the blockchain is not all about making money. It's about providing access and inclusion as well. The blockchain is basically computer code, which works peer to peer to validate transactions, thereby completely bypassing the need for traditional financial institutions i.e....

Send a text Innovation is exciting! And all of us have witnessed new technology entering every major industry, none more so that the traditional financial industry. When was the last time you even went into a bank? Financial transactions such as accessing money, depositing checks or even buying stocks, can all be done  on an app remotely at anytime and anyplace! But in spite of all the technologic...

Send a text Food is the very nourishment of life. Climate change, population growth and population density have come to challenge the way we feed ourselves. Let's look at some factors that are affecting the way we grow food: World’s population is in more urbanized areas - 60% of the population lives in cities Farms Waste Much of World's Water - On average, farms around the world account...

Send a text Technology has already come after several blue collar jobs of the past, like assembly line workers, cashiers, phone operators, and travel agents, to name a few. But is it possible for AI to automate and replace the job of a software engineer? Most technology we use today involves software - from watching our favorite shows on Netflix, to ordering a Starbucks pickup, to scheduling an ea...

Send a text Every minute, 990,000 Tinder profiles are swiped, 156 million emails are sent, and 16 million text messages are sent out. Moreover, Google processes 40,000 searches a second and 1.4 billion people log into Facebook every day. We live in a digital economy, and it runs on data! Just think about it, every time you check your Instagram or Twitter feed, Google a new recipe, or search the we...

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Send a text Communication apps have become vital in our day to day lives with  popular mobile messaging like Whatsapp, Signal, and Facebook Messenger connecting users the world over. It's staggering to think that people send over 30 BILLION messages a day, just through messaging clients . Today, on Things Have Changed, we talk to someone who has been at the forefront of product design for man...

Send a text Imagine if airplanes weren’t reusable. It costs a staggering $250-300M to buy a Boeing 747.  A one way trip to fly anywhere on the planet would cost millions. Yup, it sounds bizarre. That’s exactly the conundrum with space flight. Missions have always been incredibly expensive… but recent breakthroughs in reusability of rockets have drastically reduced the cost of spaceflight and jump...

Send a text As we see rich countries slowly open up, there is an interesting economic phenomenon taking place. While Americans are coming out of lockdown, we are seeing a large number of jobs that are not being filled. There are about 9 million job openings in the United States and a little over 9 million people who are considered “unemployed”, and some 6 million people who weren’t actively lookin...

Send a text How many times have you had to throw away your electronics because they were out of date? Or not repairable? The result is a growing mountain of e-waste. E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing trash problem. Humans generate the equivalent of 4,500 Eiffel Towers of electronic waste in a single year. Yet just 20% gets collected and recycled. This has people calling for products that are...

Send a text Since the start of the pandemic, retail investors have plowed billions into the market , making calls against institutional investors. With free trading at their fingertips and huge online communities like Wall Street Bets wherein they discuss trading ideas and stock picks, many figure they have a shot against the big guys on Wall Street. GameStop, AMC & cryptocurrency Doge are som...

Send a text What kind of toys did you have as a child? Was it Snakes & Ladders? Uno? For the Millennials, did you have a Game Boy? Each each year, toys are getting smarter. If you think about how early kids now have access to smartphones, digital learning looks to be a mainstay in early education. Today, we have Yuting Su , CEO and Co-founder of Thinker Tinker , the company behind Octobo, an a...

Send a text It’s happening. AWS is no longer the only cloud heavyweight doing business with the US Government. Azure has recently signed a $10 Billion deal with the DoD.  Gartner reports that AWS is still a better product than most competitors, in terms of what they offer and the quality! But some ask if it's fair that the DoD is only doing business with Amazon, a representation of perpetuati...

Send a text IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are all taking the helm for the cloud renaissance. Gartner says that in 2021, spending on public cloud services could go over $330B. All types of industries and even GOVERNMENTS are moving their infrastructure and technology to the cloud. There is tremendous opportunity to build on the infrastructure of the cloud. AWS has been the clear winner for a w...

Send a text Cyber-risk has more than quadrupled since 2002 and tripled since 2013. Cyber-attacks are now common across industries.  Just recently, FireEye, one of the top cybersecurity firms in the world today stated that it was hacked by a Nation State . The work-from-home wave has not helped the state of cyber-insecurity. We largely don’t think of our digital security. And it looks like the gove...

Send a text Even before the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world has been moving towards digitization. We spend almost all our lives on the internet and even the mundane things we interface with like our fridges, coffee makers, cars, and houses can be connected to the network. This marriage between the digital and physical worlds has vastly improved our lives.. But also increasingly poses a security threa...