Andreas Schleicher, who runs the Programme for International Student Assessment exams, a global evaluation of scholastic performance, observed that those scoring highest are Asian countries that have...
Điều tôi chợt nghĩ lúc đó là chiếc Lexus và cây Ô liu tượng trưng khá hay cho thời Hậu Chiến tranh lạnh: Một nửa thế giới ra khỏi cuộc chiến, cố gắng sản xuất và cải tiến cho chiếc xe Lexus sang trọng...
Observes the veteran international pollster Craig Charney, that while the Internet improves the ability to connect, it is no substitute for political organizations, culture, or leadership—and spontane...
It was not yet true what Dorothy Boyd, the secretary played by Renée Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire, tells her son about flying first-class: It used to be a better meal, now it’s a better life....
You live in a world of defined contributions—your wages and benefits will now be more and more directly correlated to your exact contribution, and with big data we will
Xin xây dựng mộ câu ngạn ngữ: Lãnh đạo trên thế giới cần phải có lối nghĩ như những thống đốc (bang ở Mỹ). Thống đốc các bang của Hoa Kỳ ngày nay được phép quyết định, có quyền hạn tương tự quyền tổng...
When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start, argues my friend and teacher Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, which advises global busin...
When the Web emerged, companies, led by Yahoo, started to organize it for consumers. Yahoo began as a directory of directories. Anytime someone put up a new website, Yahoo would add it to its director...
When Israelis were indirectly involved in the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982, the story was front-page news for weeks. When Lebanese Shiites were dir...
When I asked the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Is God in cyberspace? he joked at first that God must be in cyberspace because every time he is in the London subway, I hear people saying into...
When American astronaut Neil Armstrong, a devout Christian, visited Israel after his trip to the moon, he was taken on a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologist Meir Ben-Dov. When t...
What all these stories have in common is that the algorithms were in charge—not people, not ethics, and certainly not God. What all of these stories also have in common is the fact that a number of te...
We also recognized that schools can’t do it alone, so we surround students with a team that provides everything from extra academic opportunities, parent education, and early childhood services to beh...
The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativ...
The first and oldest of these traditions is tribe-like politics. I use the term tribe-like to refer to a pre-modern form of political interaction characterized by a harsh, survivalist quality and an a...
President Vladimir Putin has evolved a hybrid foreign policy, a strategy that mixes normal diplomacy, military force, economic corruption and a high-tech information war. Indeed, on any given day, the...
No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be out...
Intelligent assistance involves leveraging artificial intelligence to enable the government, individual companies, and the nonprofit social sector to develop more sophisticated online and mobile platf...
Indeed, there is a mismatch between the change in the pace of change and our ability to develop the learning systems, training systems, management systems, social safety nets, and government regulatio...
In the wake of World War I, however, the British and French took out their imperial pens and carved up what remained of the Ottoman dynastic empire, and created an assortment of nation-states in the M...