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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Nils Gilman from the Berggruen Institute opens the 2024 Planetary Summit with a powerful message about the challenges facing our world today. He talks about how crises like climate change, pandemics, and war are all connected—and why we need to… more ›
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The Berggruen Institute Europe welcomed Professor Slavoj Žižek at Casa dei Tre Oci to deliver a lecture on the need for a quantum theory of history. What does it mean? Why should a new theory of history and transformation be… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/bIsatOC Did the Nazis use slave labour? Should Britain pay reparations? What is the origin of the Portuguese phrase 'just for the English to see'? What was the role of Islam in abolition? Listen as William and Anita answer… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/P452UOB The lights are dimmed. A hush has fallen. The curtain is rising. Season two of Empire is here. Our topic? The Ottoman Empire. In the opening episode, Anita and William are joined by Peter Frankopan to discuss… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/8dqrbSg What does it mean to have a private life? Our guest today is Tiffany Jenkins, a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up… more ›
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Recently, the philosopher Slavoj Žižek gave a lecture on “a quantum theory of history” at the Berggruen Institute Europe’s Casa de Tre Oci in Venice. For Žižek, all major ideologies, from Liberalism to Marxism, believe history has a direction that… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/1DdOyfl Who were Jardine and Matheson? What was life like for workers growing opium in India? How does George Orwell relate to the East India Company opium trade? William and Anita explore how William Jardine and James Matheson accumulated… more ›
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Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer. Something very significant has happened to the field. And also to people. Christopher Potts Asking scientists to identify a paradigm shift, especially in real time, can… more ›
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If you don’t hate running a little, you don’t love running enough. Subscribe to our channel! http://youtube.com/nike Nike strives to bring innovation and inspiration to every athlete* in the world. (* If you have a body, you are an athlete.)… more ›