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
The Great Tech story implies that the world will see a smaller group of winners who bigger clout than the rest.
In other words, the world is in disunion not just from wealth and income disparities, but through the widening digital and knowledge application gaps.
In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war
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.
The global financial system looks stable, because central banks have shifted more and more debt onto their books.
The profit model of business has ignored climate change for too long.
The global financial system is in a real bind.
The world today is caught in a confidence trap.
The answer is the soil on which we live, the primary producer of our food and water.
Financial markets do not seem to factor long-term climate change issues into short-term price considerations
The outcome of the US-China rivalry hinges on the technology edge
The global economy and planetary system are hugely imbalanced because of climate warming and widening social inequities.
With the world likely to head towards a recession, what is the future of the dollar and monetary policy?
There is no endgame in war, only wealth and health destruction.
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.
The West has now pushed Russia, the largest country by geographical size, to provide food, energy and fertilisers to the Rest.
Deep social change often come from people, social movements and civil society organisations, rarely from top down.
