The 9th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference took place this week at Lake Tahoe. Officially, the theme was “the Singularity,” an artificial intelligence term denoting the emergence of transformative technological change. But the main meme revolved around a slightly less sexy idea: kiosks.
Kiosks and their close cousins, vending machines, tend to elicit images of laundromats and college dorms. But there’s a whole new wave of this distribution mechanism arriving at electronics shops, hospitals, and office buildings that should inform the nation’s political and economic debate.
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