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Are all new things good?

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Read an interesting article today from the NYT written by William Cohan http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/business/dealbook/profits-and-ethics-collide-in-nameless-turmoil.html?_r=0 and found the observations and questions asked extremely interesting.  Are all shiny new things good?

This is a question that arises quite often in the VC and startup world.  What is this for? What problem does this solve? Who needs this and why? Of course there is no umbrella answer for this as everything in this world can be used for both good and bad, two sides of the coin.

So what does it come down to? The goals and visions of the founders, those supporting and fuelling the growth or the participating users?

Hard to say.  Lots to think about.  Responsibility comes down to the users and humanity as a whole.  Technology doesn’t change the world. It enables US to change the world.

What about our safety?

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With the new episode of Russian hackers storming the barn that is the world of Internet security months after Heartbleed tore a hole in the system, it brings me to think about our general sense of security in the modern world.
We are told to have different and stronger passwords for everything but yet it seems that there are systemic breakdowns that edge ever closer to disrupting our world as a whole. It really is “our world” nowadays also since the Internet is everywhere and increasingly in everything. Do our archaic forms of letters and numbers really hold a strong enough front to defend us? Is our information ever really safe again? Facebook and Google seem to be the “good guys”, for now, but can we imagine a world if they weren’t? Crazy mad scientists and villains rarely care about market cap and stock price.
This brings me to the “smart home”. A genius concept in a world filled with rainbows and cupcakes but in the world of monitoring and espionage, where does that take us?
Things to think about as always and hope everybody is chillin this weekend.
Change your PASSWORDS!