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1 Source: "The Intel Trinity", by Michael Malone; Harper Business, 2014.
2 For example: Oxford Economics: "How Robots change the world", June 2019; Boston Consulting Group: "Advanced Robotics in the factory of the future", and McKinsey Global Institute: "Jobs lost, jobs gained", November 2017.
3 Break out session with journalists at the WEF on 23 January 2018 (www.WEForum.org).
4 Evans Data Corporation estimate there were 23 million software developers in the world in 2018. United Nations estimate there are 7.7 billion people in the world, August 2019.
5 The “Ding-Dong” hypothesis proposes that language formed to mimic sounds in the real world, while the “Bow-wow” hypothesis has a similar concept but is limited to the imitation of animals.
6 Source: CBSNews: The surrealism of Magritte. Copyright Charly Herscovici-ADAGP-ARS, 2013, URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-surrealism-of-magritte/5/, last accessed on August 14, 2019.
7 For example: https//www.aiva.ai/ and https://openai.com/blog/musenet/
8 Source: https://www.nextrembrandt.com/
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