Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics Emeritus and a former dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Senior Adviser to General Atlantic, and Chairman of the firm’s Global Growth Institute. He is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute and serves on the Academic Committee at Luohan Academy. He is a former chair of the Commission on Growth and Development and the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World (Macmillan Publishers, 2012).
发自北京——最近披露的一份资料显示有超过5000万的Facebook个人资料被手机App收集后提供给了政治咨询公司剑桥分析公司(Cambridge Analytica),引发了公众对该平台的强烈反对。但这只不过是关于互联网(也是当今数字革命的核心)所涉及风险的最近一个例子而已。
过去25年来重塑了全球经济的大部分数字化创新都依赖网络连接,而网络连接也改变了商业,通信,教育培训,供应链等行业的形态。连接还让人们得以访问海量的信息,包括那些支持机器学习,对现代人工智能的发展至关重要的信息。
在过去15年左右的时间里移动互联网又进一步强化了这一趋势,不仅令能连接到互联网进而可以参与数字经济的人数迅速增加,而且还增加了他们连接的频率和便利性。从GPS导航到乘车共享平台再到移动支付系统,移动连接对人们的生活和工作都产生了深远的影响。
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