For the past 30 years I have been building companies across multiple geographies. Creating plans, founding teams, joining opportunities, raising capital, investing: the full spectrum of entrepreneurial activity, unconstrained by a single location. Ten years ago Network Society Labs, a global network of blockchain consulting groups, operated offices in San Francisco, Buenos Aires, London, Malta, […]

The following is an edited transcript of my keynote presentation at The Futurists X Summit held in Dubai in September 2025. Humanity can flourish in the age of AI and robots: I believe that through them we will gain new degrees of freedom, and it will enable us to decide and design our future. My

When xAI launched Grokipedia in October 2025, claiming it would be a “massive improvement over Wikipedia,” I was curious, and decided to compare them scientifically on topics where I have expertise. (Read the full report online at pedia.davidorban.com) Why This Comparison Matters Grokipedia is explicitly in early beta and doesn’t yet have universal coverage. So instead of focusing