Can AI unlock productivity and growth?
If you watched Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's remarkable presentation at Taipei Computex last month, you would be convinced that AI has ushered in a new Industrial Revolution, in which accelerated computing with the latest AI chips unleashed the power of doing everything faster, more efficiently, and with less energy
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Can tech giants solve climate change and social inequality?
The Great Tech story implies that the world will see a smaller group of winners who bigger clout than the rest.
6m ago
A global state of disunion
In other words, the world is in disunion not just from wealth and income disparities, but through the widening digital and knowledge application gaps.
7m ago
To be treated as equals to the West, the Global South must decolonise its minds
In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war
9m ago
Has the West lost the Rest?
The images and news coming out of Gaza are so horrific that I cannot think of anything hopeful or constructive that can come of this cataclysm.
11m ago
How stable is the global financial system really?
The global financial system looks stable, because central banks have shifted more and more debt onto their books.
1y ago
Are we apes fighting over a burning planet?
The profit model of business has ignored climate change for too long.
1y ago
Will Singapore or Hong Kong finance the South’s next transition?
The global financial system is in a real bind.
1y ago
September 3, 2023
Who will drive Asia’s animal spirits?
The world today is caught in a confidence trap.
August 20, 2023
How can we deal with the looming climate, food crises?
The answer is the soil on which we live, the primary producer of our food and water.
August 3, 2023
Reimagining finance and social markets
Financial markets do not seem to factor long-term climate change issues into short-term price considerations
July 17, 2023
Promises and perils of the tech war
The outcome of the US-China rivalry hinges on the technology edge
June 3, 2023
How to correct global imbalances?
The global economy and planetary system are hugely imbalanced because of climate warming and widening social inequities.
April 22, 2023
Weaponising global money
With the world likely to head towards a recession, what is the future of the dollar and monetary policy?
April 2, 2023
The Global Game of ChessGo
There is no endgame in war, only wealth and health destruction.
March 13, 2023
Is the Rest answering back to the West?
The West is in a Metaverse of its own imaginative creation, whereas the seven billion Rest is trying to figure out realistically how to survive the existing liberal order.
January 31, 2023
The West versus the Rest
The West has now pushed Russia, the largest country by geographical size, to provide food, energy and fertilisers to the Rest.
November 20, 2022
Manifesto for social progress
Deep social change often come from people, social movements and civil society organisations, rarely from top down.
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