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.
Kishan Rana’s book: “Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal” (Routledge, 2022) is an important contribution to an emerging global history different from just Euro-centric narratives. Superbly researched, Kishan connected the dots to find that Churchill’s record on India reflected part of his own limited experience with Indians, formed through his leadership of Indian Muslim troops as part of his early career, and his grand, but often self-serving, view of world affairs from imperial London.
The latest World Inequality Report shows tackling climate change and social injustice are part of a total political package.
What is the alternative to Big Business or Big Government?
Rising uncertainties are making global compromise and cooperation more unlikely
Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, to some extent, has already crossed China’s red line.
After the 2008 global financial crisis, the world seemed ready to undertake meaningful reform of the international monetary system. But the promised structural changes never happened.
The Ukraine war is a tragedy of tragedies, catastrophic for the Ukrainian people, a disaster for the global economy and a real setback for
Moving from a unipolar world to a multipolar world was always likely to be messy and risk-prone.
Race is staring us in the face. Confronting and dealing with it is highly emotional and disturbing, so much so that in polite company, it’s unspeakable. But we can’t avoid it, because racism has become global.
Life is extremely complicated and will only become more so.
