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The same technologies that threaten to destroy privacy will give us new forms of privacy and security. AI breaks old encryption. AI builds new encryption. The cycle continues.

This is possible, in part, because the structure of exponential organizations is very different. Rather than utilize armies of employees or large physical plants, twenty-first-century start-ups are smaller organizations focused on information technologies, dematerializing the once physical and creating new products and revenue streams in months, sometimes weeks. As a result, these lean start-ups are the small furry mammals competing with the large dinosaurs — meaning they're one asteroid strike away from world dominance.

Today most poverty-stricken Americans have a television, telephone, electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. Most Africans do not. If you transferred the goods and services enjoyed by those who live in California's version of poverty to the average Somalian living on less than a $1.25 a day, that Somalian is suddenly fabulously rich.