The Game - Part 3 - VJ

This learning path was inspired by the book "The Game" written by Alessandro Baricco.

2008-2016

From App to Alpha Go

The Game

The world where we live

2008 Financial crisis started. The Lehman Brothers collapse.

2008 Spotify - Daniel Ek from Sweden - 9,99 € a month access to 30 millions songs

2008 Apple Store - 500 Apps They cost no more than 10,00 $ or they were even free. In four days people downloaded 10 millions Apps. Nowadays the Apple Store has 2 millions Apps while Google Play has three millions Apps. 

2008 Airbnb (San Francisco)

04/11/2008 Barack Obama was the first Afro-American to become the President of the United States of America

2009 WhatsApp - Jan Koum from Kiev arrived at the Silicon Valley when he was 16; he was very poor and worked at Yahoo together with Brian Acton. They were the second generation of The Game inventors. It was sold to Facebook in 2014 for 19 billions dollars. It is a free App. 

2009 Uber (San Francisco Taxi)

4/10/2009 the 5 Star Movement was founded by Beppe Grillo and an Olivetti programmer Gianroberto Casaleggio - The Digital Democracy through Rousseau started

2010 Instagram - The American engineer Kevin Systrom - It was sold to Facebook in 2012

2011 Apple Cloud

2011 Snapchat - Three Stanford students (Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown)

2011 People used the Apps more than the Web. 

2012 The Digital TV

2012 Tinder

2016 A software developed by Google called AlphaGo (A.I.) played Go and defeated Lee Sedol who was Go World Champion (A software developed by IBM won at chess against Kasparov in 1996)