Tech Executives Arenât Fortune Tellers
Tech leaders can run wildly successful companies. That doesnât mean they have a crystal ball.
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People who work in technology are often incredibly smart. But that doesnât necessarily make them accurate forecasters of human and social behavior.
This week, Airbnbâs chief executive said that he thought more people would hop between multiple homes when the pandemic ends. Mark Zuckerberg talked about his vision of people using goggles that read their minds. A co-founder of Stripe, the digital finance start-up, spoke about a range of things, including worker productivity metrics and the need for improved medical technology.
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Roblox Tops $45 Billion on First Day of Trading as Gaming Booms
The gaming site, valued at $4 billion a year ago, has benefited from the way children are passing their time in the pandemic.
Welcome to Bloxburg is one of many games in Roblox’s online universe, where players have avatars and can interact with one another.Credit.Roblox
March 10, 2021
When the pandemic forced people indoors a year ago, many passed the time by playing games on their iPhones, building gaming computers and exploring the latest blockbuster titles on their Xbox and PlayStation consoles.
For video game companies, that has meant gushers of cash. A record $56.9 billion was spent on gaming last year in the United States, up 27 percent from 2019, according to the NPD Group. Sony, which released the PlayStation 5 in November, recently reported a 62 percent profit jump while Microsoft tallied $5 billion in quarterly gaming revenue for the first time, helped by sales of its new Xbox devices.
Black and Hispanic Communities Grapple With Vaccine Misinformation
The false information arrives on social media and fringe news sites, influencing people already facing other hurdles to getting vaccinated. Some activists are going door to door to counter it.
Daniel Lander and Armando Mateos, who are working for a community group trying to dispel vaccine misinformation, distributing pamphlets, masks and more in San Jose, Calif.Credit.Ulysses Ortega for The New York Times
SAN JOSE, Calif. On an unseasonably warm day in February, two men working with a local community group went door to door in an ethnically diverse neighborhood to persuade people to sign up for Covid-19 vaccinations.