Original concepts
Product and venture concepts, several later patented, and essays on the future of work.
The Future of Agentic Commerce, Filed in 2016
In March 2016, while I was at Microsoft, I was the named inventor on a patent application for AI agents that negotiate purchases on behalf of people, a year before the transformer paper. The technology to build it did not exist yet. Here is what the filing described, why it had to wait, and what it taught me about timing.
From Unemployment to Entrepreneurship. A Platform for Service Exchange and Team Formation exclusively for unemployed people.
This article presents a proposal for an online platform that will facilitate connections among unemployed individuals, enabling them to exchange skills and services, form collaborative teams, and develop startup ventures. Shaped in collaboration with Ainna, the agentic innovation platform.
A Startup Ecosystem Driven By Unemployed People
Imagine a platform where unemployed people can safely collaborate and experiment with concepts and ideas: ‘virtual startups’ powered by the workforce of unemployed people.
Fake News and Misinformation: How digital tech can help
A global, immutable registry of labeled ‘fake news’ as the basis of a universal solution to the problem, on top of news organizations, social media, and search engines. By utilizing technologies such as Blockchain, IPFS, NLP the platform empowers a global network of evaluators to continuously fact-check and label a representative random sample of the fresh global content we produce and share.
The Future of the Corporate HQ
The post-lockdown corporate HQ will gradually lose its importance; it will be replaced by a network of smaller offices offering core services and also allowing remote workers to occasionally get together, collaborate and reinforce their business bonds.
How to Improve Online Meetings and Digital Collaboration
Video conferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, or WebEx along with Digital tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack are deeply embedded into the modern ways of working, even more during the lockdown era. And their role will only get more important.
Home Office or Corporate Office? The Future of Work
The world is changing dramatically: the pandemic and the subsequent lock-down enforced the rapid adoption of digital technologies, bringing a direct impact on core aspects of work and life: education, learning, communicating, shopping, and, most importantly, working.
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