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 postbiblical world we understand that from the first day of the world, God trusted man to make choices, when He entrusted Adam to make the right decision about which fruit to eat in the Garden...
I don’t always agree, he said. Great, I responded. It means you always have to check.
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...
El argumento central de este libro es que estas aceleraciones simultáneas en el Mercado, la Madre Naturaleza y la ley de Moore juntas constituyen la «era de las aceleraciones», en la cual nos encontra...
Disruption’ is what happens when someone does something clever that makes you or your company look obsolete. ‘Dislocation’ is when the whole environment is being altered so quickly that everyone start...
Claire Cain Miller pointed out that for all the jobs that machines can now do—whether performing surgery, driving cars or serving food—they still lack one distinctly human trait. They have no social s...
But a growing number of studies, including my own research, suggest that geographic proximity and cultural diversity—a place’s openness to different cultures, religions, sexual orientations—also play...
At the end of the day, no amount of investing, no amount of clean electrons, no amount of energy efficiency will save the natural world if we are not paying attention to it - if we are not paying atte...
As the Lebanese sociologist Samir Khalaf summed it up: Though the average Lebanese derives much … social support and psychological reinforcement from … local and communal allegiances, these forces are...
As I watched the 2016 presidential campaign unfold, the words of Marie Curie never rang more true to me or felt more relevant: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the...
Điều đó giải thích vì sao trong một số nước, sự chống đối toàn cầu hóa mạnh mẽ nhất không đến từ nhóm dân chúng nghèo đói, mà từ những kẻ vốn xưa nay... trong giới trung lưu và trung lưu lớp dưới, nhữ...
Điều khiến Internet nguy hiểm đối với các nhà nước độc tài, đó là các nhà nước này buộc phải cho phép nó tồn tại, vì nếu không họ sẽ bị thua thiệt về kinh tế. Nhưng nếu có Internet, họ sẽ không thể ki...
When we got hit with 9/11, it was a once-in-a-generation opportunity to summon the nation to sacrifice, to address some of its pressing fiscal, energy, science, and education shortfalls – all the thin...
We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we’re done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity...
The sudden and massive influx of refugees from Africa and the Middle East has overwhelmed the absorptive capacity of the European Union and triggered a populist-nationalist backlash, while also prompt...
Removing tyrants sometimes does indeed lead to freedom. At other times it merely leads to new kinds of tyranny. Happy the revolution where the revolutionaries are both freedom-loving and effectively o...
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...
In the Cold War, Russia effectively occupied all of Eastern Europe, suppressing not only its freedoms but also its ethnic conflicts. For five centuries the Ottomans managed most of the Middle East in...
I would go a step further and say that the ROI—return on investment—on pluralism in the age of accelerations will soar and become maybe the single most important competitive advantage for a society—fo...