I have spent a lot of time, in America and abroad, covering the struggles of different groups to assert ownership over their societies and the consequences of their lack of it. And I am forever struck...
GE’s lab is like a mini United Nations. Every engineering team looks like one of those multiethnic Benetton ads. But this was not affirmative action at work; it was a brutal meritocracy. When you are...
Every computing device today has five basic components: (1) the integrated circuits that do the computing; (2) the memory units that store and retrieve information; (3) the networking systems that ena...
Consider a New York Times story from April 22, 2014, that reported: Something strange is happening at farms in upstate New York. The cows are milking themselves. Desperate for reliable labor and buoye...
Chiến tranh lạnh có cái nhìn toàn cầu riêng: thế giói được chia thành phe Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa, phe Tư Bản Chủ Nghĩa và phe Trung Lập; nước nào cũng thuộc về một trong những phe này.
But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a co...
Because when we weaken all top-down authority structures and strengthen bottom-up ones; when we create a world with not only superpowers but also super-empowered individuals; when we put so many dista...
And since computing and storage power had exploded in 2007, the capacity to do so was suddenly there. It led IBM to a fundamental insight: Every time we got rid of a linguist, our accuracy went up, sa...
All of this weakened the G.O.P.’s foundation and opened the way for an invasive species such as Donald Trump to make deep inroads into its garden.
All I know is that since becoming a reporter in 1978, I have spent a lot of my career covering the difference between peoples, societies, leaders, and cultures focused on learning from the other—to ca...
Said Seidman. When freedom from outstrips freedom to, amplified actors in the grip of destructive ideas will cause more harm and destruction, unless they become inspired and enlisted in constructive h...
With the steady drop in the price of renewable energy and efficiency, it now costs the same to destroy the climate or save it, said Harvey. The price is basically the same, but at the micro scale ther...
The same thing, notes Brynjolfsson, happened 120 years ago, in the Second Industrial Revolution, when electrification—the supernova of its day—was introduced. Old factories did not just have to be ele...
The job of the politician in America, whether at the local, state, or national level, should be, in good part, to help educate and explain to people what world they are living in and what they need to...
So, as I wrote in the paperback edition of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, I started telling anyone who asked Is God in cyberspace? that the answer is no—but He wants to be there. But only we can bring...
Một đất nước nên lo lắng cho về khả năng thiếu công ăn việc làm, hơn là chỉ chăm chăm lo lắng sự mất đi những công ty lâu đời. Điều này nghe có vẻ mâu thuẫn, nhưng thực ra không phải vậy. Nếu sợ rằng...
Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake.
Hoa Kỳ được như ngày hôm nay là nhờ có 200 năm thăng trầm với những chu kỳ khủng hoảng trong việc đầu tư vào ngành đường sắt, những đổ bể trong hệ thống ngân hàng, những cuộc phá sản lớn, độc quyền si...
But it is very difficult to persuade people to do something if you can’t connect the dots for them in a convincing way—why this action will produce this result, because this is how the gears and pulle...
Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a society that was known for generations as the Switzerland of the Mi...