{"id":4210,"date":"2011-09-29T06:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2011-09-29T06:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:29:46","slug":"the-advent-of-the-global-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4210","title":{"rendered":"The advent of the global brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/chrystia-freeland\/2011\/09\/23\/the-advent-of-the-global-brain\/\">Chrystia Freeland:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Get ready for the global brain. That was the grand finale of a presentation on the next generation of the Internet I heard last week from Yuri Milner. G-8 leaders had a preview of Milner\u2019s predictions a few months earlier, when he was among the technology savants invited to brief the world\u2019s most powerful politicians in Deauville, France.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nMilner is the technology guru most of us have never heard of. He was an early outside investor in Facebook, sinking $200 million in the company in 2009 for a 1.96 percent stake, a decision that was widely derided as crazy at the time. He was also early to spot the potential of Zynga, the gaming company, and of Groupon, the daily deals site.<br \/><Br><\/p>\n<p>His investing savvy propelled Milner this year onto the Forbes Rich List, with an estimated net worth of $1 billion. One reason his is not yet a household name is that he does his tech spotting from Moscow, not a city most of us look to for innovative economic ideas.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nMilner was speaking in the Ukranian city of Yalta, at the annual mini-Davos hosted by the Ukrainian pipes baron and art collector Victor Pinchuk (disclosure \u2014 I moderated at the event). What was striking about Milner\u2019s remarks was how sharply his tone differed from that of the other participants.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrystia Freeland: Get ready for the global brain. That was the grand finale of a presentation on the next generation of the Internet I heard last week from Yuri Milner. G-8 leaders had a preview of Milner\u2019s predictions a few months earlier, when he was among the technology savants invited to brief the world\u2019s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,32,33,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4211,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}