You might want to take a mental snapshot of what insurance looks like, because babies born today could grow into the first generation that doesn’t know what insurance is. That doesn’t mean insurance won’t be a thing. We just might not recognize it in 20 years.

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With Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 effectively dead, Google’s new phones are shaping up to be strong stand-ins.

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While the current generation of startups in Southeast Asia is truly dynamic and multicultural and government support for startups is slowly beginning to see light, the high level of online censorship still is a high hurdle in Southeast Asia.

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Sometime pretty soon we could find ourselves living in an all-cloud world. All software and data services will need to be accessed through devices connected to the Internet. Your apps will refuse to work above a basic level of functionality unless you are cloud-connected and can provide some evidence of access to an Internet pipe.

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While there has been a lot of debate on what “open” means, what everyone in technology can agree on is that open standards are one of the key drivers of industry growth and prosperity. Open technology standards enable the profitable growth by allowing companies to share common specifications so everyone isn’t recreating the wheel. Standards are used to drive growth in every part of the tech market from IoT to smartphones to the internet and to the datacenter.

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The revelation that Softbank is planning a $100 billion tech fund with the Saudi Arabian government is a big announcement in and of itself. It will be one of the biggest tech investment funds in existence.

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