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Despite the technological advancement, Toothless’ velocity is less convincing than “The NeverEnding Story’s” Falkor the Luck Dragon over four decades ago.

Some argue Socrates was right and the trend is escalating: with each major technological advancement, we increasingly rely on tools outside of ourselves to perform tasks we once accomplished in-house.

And this is without any mention of the more recent and specific concerns like the rising gig economy or the effects of technological advancements.

He points to the intellectual, technological, AI, and life sciences opportunities.

Despite all this Mr Varvill's own epitaph for the business overshadows technological milestones.