Mid November 2019, I was once more lucky enough to attend the 9th edition of Techonomy, in my opinion, one of the best tech conferences and networking events in the world.

The event is set up as a three-day retreat at The Ritz-Carlton on the shores of Half Moon Bay, CA. The format is pretty straightforward: many fireside chats, some presentations, and some early morning workshops. Content leads and is focused on tech, business, and social progress. Full program here. All live video streams here.

The theme for Techonomy 2019 was “Reset and Restore: Governing Tech, Retrieving Ethics, and Acting on Climate” with an awesome list of speakers and instigators.

Here is – in more or less random order – a set of tweetable memes that I collected at #Techonomy19:

Can technology help us listen vs. sharing/shouting?

From giving fish > learn to fish > create fishing schools

Only the Walmarts can save us from Trump

by addressing the root cause of big problems such as healthcare

The hierarchy not always wins

There has to be some kind of return (on investment). Why?

Real-Time Crime Solving vs. Real-Time Health Development

Real-Time Evil Control vs. Real-Time Good Amplification

5G Beam Forming

Precision Economy

Computing moving back to the edge

Trust is consistency over time

Transparency vs. Clarity

Your digital twin is not you real me; it is just a model of me

All companies are connection machines

I will not work on fully autonomous weapons 

Voice First

The Time of Engineering Innocence is Over

Privacy is Dead vs. Anonymity is Dead

The Absolute does not Exist

Worry and Concern are two different things

The State (country) is done

Welcome a future of 2,000 “Nations” aka Superminds

Tribal Nations along the Internet Highway

Democracy > Netocracy

We need more law at the POC stage

Super-evolution

More mission-driven companies

More audacious companies

More focus on the physical world

More than optimize a spreadsheet

The full-stack company

Machines have no Bias

Machines have no Emotions

Infinite experiments driven by machines

The Collapse of Time

40 crops per year (instead of 2-4)

What to read to stay current?

“By the time you read about it, it is too late”

“We are NOT a Tech Company”

“Every Tech Company wants to become a bank”

Technology is the best way to disintermediate

See also my related post titled “Immoral Machines of Loving Greed”.