Five Things Tech: Meta, Electric Cars, Programmable DNA Machines, Solar, Unions

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Thanks for reading this on your Saturday Morning. My name is Nico, I have been involved in the tech ecosystem for over 20 years and I’m still excited about everything that is going on. Especially since we have entered a period where the zero interested crazyness is over and investors look for new and different factors when it comes to value generation in tech. Clearly there is a shift to sustainability and greentech and obviously alternative sources of energy like wind and especially solar are shaping the developments of the future.

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Hey Zuck, Get Those Robots out of My Social Feed

It seems like Marc Zuckerberg doesn’t really want to admit that betting on the metaverse was a really bad idea and pushing AI-based bots into the mostly empty metaverse doesn’t really make the whole thing more appealing. (LINK)

Europe Learns Its Electric Cars Will Be Made in China

This is will be a huge challenge for the big and arrogant German automakers, who never expected China to be more than a market where they could sell cars. I assume that the EU will abandon their free-market strategy and impose new tariffs on Chinese EV. (LINK)

Programmable DNA Machines Offer General-Purpose Computing

Honestly, when I read this articles, there were more than a few moments when I thought to myself: “awesome, but I have no idea what that means or how that works”. The idea that some DNA computer thingy could detect something in your body and then act accordingly, is amazing, but also a bit scary. (LINK)

Fossil fuels ‘becoming obsolete’ as solar panel prices plummet

This is huge, but at the same time there will probably be some sort of tariff established in the EU soon to fence of the Chinese solarpanel manufacturers, who can reach a pricepoint that European manufacturers simply cannot match. (LINK)

The Other Huge Benefit to All These Labor Strikes

Mass organizations have their benefit as they provide something that our Western societies so desperately need: strong communities. And also they help workers get better paid secure jobs. (LINK)

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