What’s “the largest business opportunity the world has ever seen?”

According to David Nordfors of i4J, that’s the $140T (yes, Trillion) innovation for jobs market: 5B people around the world are of working age, 3B want a job with steady pay, yet only 1.3B have one – and of those, only 13% (around 200M people) are fully engaged at their job. So how can society engage and scale to the talents of 3 to 5 billion people?

How to disrupt mobile:

As the mobile ecosystem supplants the PC ecosystem, innovation and investment is centered around mobile – but what happens once mobile reaches everyone on earth? Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz makes a case for AI: “Just as the web didn’t replace Windows, but made it a commodity,” he writes, “AI might shift our attention away from mobile.”

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