We are reviewing this book today at 10:00AM, at Adore Addis in Bole. Feel free to join.
In some section, The Old Drift explores technology's impact on society through various futuristic elements, such as embedded chips called "Beads" that connect individuals to information networks, blurring the lines between human and machine. The narrative features innovations like drones and viral vaccines, reflecting Zambia's technological evolution while addressing contemporary issues like colonialism and health crises.
In The Old Drift, drones and microdrones serve as symbols of technological advancement and surveillance, reflecting societal changes.
The Zambian space program, initiated by Edward Makuka Nkoloso in the 1960s, aimed to launch a rocket carrying 17-year-old Matha Mwambwa and two cats to the Moon. Nkoloso sought to position Zambia as a contender in the Space Race against the U.S. and Soviet Union. Training involved unconventional methods like rolling trainees in oil drums to simulate weightlessness.
In some section, The Old Drift explores technology's impact on society through various futuristic elements, such as embedded chips called "Beads" that connect individuals to information networks, blurring the lines between human and machine. The narrative features innovations like drones and viral vaccines, reflecting Zambia's technological evolution while addressing contemporary issues like colonialism and health crises.
In The Old Drift, drones and microdrones serve as symbols of technological advancement and surveillance, reflecting societal changes.
The Zambian space program, initiated by Edward Makuka Nkoloso in the 1960s, aimed to launch a rocket carrying 17-year-old Matha Mwambwa and two cats to the Moon. Nkoloso sought to position Zambia as a contender in the Space Race against the U.S. and Soviet Union. Training involved unconventional methods like rolling trainees in oil drums to simulate weightlessness.
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Read science fiction to imagine what might change.
Read ancient literature to understand what doesn't.
HAVE A WONDERFUL 2025
Read ancient literature to understand what doesn't.
HAVE A WONDERFUL 2025
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et/acc
What real Acceleration looks like.🤯 It is quite fitting that DeepSeek, China’s leading LLM lab, releases its latest model V3 on Christmas. - on-par with GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet - trained w/10x less compute
If China can train frontier model with $6Mn - when will ethiopia/Africa build an frontier model with trained on local synthetic data? Will there ever be an Pan-african research Lab tasked on this?
📖 The first book of 2025 is What is Next is Now.
You can respond to unexpected challenges—big and small—by turning them into opportunities with six principles for developing a “future-ready mindstate”:
1. Optimism
2. Openness
3. Curiosity
4. Experimentation
5. Empathy
6. Dimension X—the unique lens through which each of us sees the world.
Both inspirational and actionable, What's Next Is Now engages your personal sense of discovery, providing dozens of thoughtful exercises and illustrations, real-world practices, and provocative insights from people who have adopted a future-ready mindstate. Here is an optimistic guide that helps innovators, entrepreneurs, and other agents of change invent the future.
You can respond to unexpected challenges—big and small—by turning them into opportunities with six principles for developing a “future-ready mindstate”:
1. Optimism
2. Openness
3. Curiosity
4. Experimentation
5. Empathy
6. Dimension X—the unique lens through which each of us sees the world.
Both inspirational and actionable, What's Next Is Now engages your personal sense of discovery, providing dozens of thoughtful exercises and illustrations, real-world practices, and provocative insights from people who have adopted a future-ready mindstate. Here is an optimistic guide that helps innovators, entrepreneurs, and other agents of change invent the future.
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The brain is our
Human nature is our
Culture is our
Memory is our
Knowledge is our
Language is our
- waitbutwhy
hardware Human nature is our
OS Culture is our
software Memory is our
hard driveKnowledge is our
data Language is our
internet- waitbutwhy
Ethiopia has just displaced Nigeria to become the 4th largest economy in Africa as Nigeria now ranks 5th.
How did they do it? "From number one to 5th in just 10 years."
Whatever the error of 2015 will take them decades to correct.
Ethiopian Acceleration... inevitable.
How did they do it? "From number one to 5th in just 10 years."
Whatever the error of 2015 will take them decades to correct.
Ethiopian Acceleration... inevitable.
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"Ambition, at its core, is a capacity for unhappiness. It is a ferocious current that can make a human body absorb considerable pain to attain a purely materialistic interest." _ M. Joseph
Forwarded from Frectonz
The future of work is pure leverage:
1995: Humans + pen/paper
2001: Humans + broadband internet
2010: Humans + social media
2015: Humans + SaaS
2021: Humans + automation
2024: Humans + AI
2025: Humans + agents
2026: Humans + agent swarms
2027: Humans + autonomous companies
2028: Humans + humanoid assistants
Every year, one person can do more.
1995: Humans + pen/paper
2001: Humans + broadband internet
2010: Humans + social media
2015: Humans + SaaS
2021: Humans + automation
2024: Humans + AI
2025: Humans + agents
2026: Humans + agent swarms
2027: Humans + autonomous companies
2028: Humans + humanoid assistants
Every year, one person can do more.
Don't think many comprehend:
- Perception AI
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- Physical AI
"On current trends Africans will make up over 80% of the world’s poor by 2030, up from 14% in 1990."
What will be Africa's Role in Physical AI? Will it make Africa irrelevant as a whole?
Ethiopian Acceleration is needed more than ever.
- Perception AI
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- Physical AI
"On current trends Africans will make up over 80% of the world’s poor by 2030, up from 14% in 1990."
What will be Africa's Role in Physical AI? Will it make Africa irrelevant as a whole?
Ethiopian Acceleration is needed more than ever.
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In 2025 i'd like to ask one question 52 times: if i had 10x the agency i have what would i do this week?
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Yesterday’s update
Started with kazagame at Atmosphere—a vibe. Later, hit up an art exhibition at the studio. The artist’s style? Unique. No canvas, no paint—just fabric. Every piece stitched together like a story. Price tag? A cool 120,000 Birr each.
Clever concept: He doesn’t paint; he stitches.
It sparked a thought. 📖 Recently read something about Ethiopia's textile industry, and here’s the jaw-dropper: In the past 10 years, Ethiopia’s entire textile and apparel sector has exported roughly $1 billion.
For perspective: EpicGame's Fortnite racks up 3x that amount selling virtual clothing. Per year? They pull in $3.6 billion USD.
Fortnite makes 3x money in a year selling virtual clothing as Ethiopia does physical cloths in Decade.
Real cloth vs. virtual skins.
Atoms vs. bits.
Mind. Blown. 🤯
Started with kazagame at Atmosphere—a vibe. Later, hit up an art exhibition at the studio. The artist’s style? Unique. No canvas, no paint—just fabric. Every piece stitched together like a story. Price tag? A cool 120,000 Birr each.
Clever concept: He doesn’t paint; he stitches.
It sparked a thought. 📖 Recently read something about Ethiopia's textile industry, and here’s the jaw-dropper: In the past 10 years, Ethiopia’s entire textile and apparel sector has exported roughly $1 billion.
For perspective: EpicGame's Fortnite racks up 3x that amount selling virtual clothing. Per year? They pull in $3.6 billion USD.
Fortnite makes 3x money in a year selling virtual clothing as Ethiopia does physical cloths in Decade.
Real cloth vs. virtual skins.
Atoms vs. bits.
Mind. Blown. 🤯
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Forwarded from Luna's pathway🤗 (Luna)
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