Scratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, used to put …
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In short: A Melbourne company has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by the ADF to trial anti-drone technology. It uses directed energy in the form of light to disable unmanned aerial vehicles. What’s next? The firm expects to deliver its system to the ADF for evaluation by the middle of …
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