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
4m ago
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
December 4, 2020
Do more, talk less
Do more, talk less is the advice given by Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister, to current Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, on his war of words with China.
October 13, 2020
Failing future fast forward
Everything is happening so fast that we feel as if the future is being compressed into the present at frightening speed.
October 2, 2019
Is the future truly Asian?
This is a question that is at the heart of the tensions across the Pacific. To Parag Khanna, author of The Future Is Asian, the answer is almost self-evident. However, if you read his book carefully, you will find that he thinks global power will be shared between Asian and Western
July 9, 2019
After the Hong Kong protests, what next?
The old order is broken. No less than Russian President Putin has declared the Neoliberal order “obsolete”.
June 26, 2019
Balkanising the World Wide Web
It is a cliché to say that we live in a digital age, with many countries upgrading to become Knowledge Economies.
June 9, 2019
On board the SS Planet Titanic
World Environment Day (June 5) was a good time to reflect on the existential threat of climate change.
February 16, 2019
Embrace diversity or accept divorce
Two major divorces are in the making in March. The obvious one is Brexit, which officially occurs on March 29. The other is the deadline for the US-China trade negotiations on March 1, when
February 6, 2019
The grand delusion of modern money
AS the world goes through messy divorces in Brexit and the US-China trade relationship, there is considerable angst about whether we are moving into a period of disorder.
January 8, 2019
2018: The year of competing dangerously
The year 2018 was not one of living dangerously, as most of us mere mortals want more than ever to live a quiet life. The year has also not been easy for any leader, as Theresa May knows all too well.
November 26, 2018
Crossing the Pacific by feeling the stones
The Chinese have a saying that arose from the Long March—crossing the river by feeling the stones. In a situation of grave uncertainty—how deep the water is—you can only cross the river by slowly taking one step at a time, making sure that the next stone is firm enough for you to step on before you take the next step. If you are wrong, you change course and feel for the next stone.
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