Tag: global affairs
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I am fully convinced of the need to electrify everything. One of the things we’re going to have to do on the way to that is understand electricity, batteries, grids… more ›
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In this story from Nataal issue 3, Ekow Eshun, Selly Raby Kane and Sunny Dolat discuss Afrofuturism in fashion “Afrotopia is an active utopia that takes as its task the… more ›
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In a speech in Washington, D.C. in 2019, ex-British prime minister Tony Blair declared that ‘globalisation is a force of nature, not a policy; it is a fact.’ He echoed President Bill Clinton back in 2000: ‘Yet… more ›
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GUANGZHOU, China — As I walked through the narrow alleyways of the garment district here in China’s third-largest city one afternoon, I saw a woman I’ll call Wong Yip sitting beside… more ›
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The train that forever changed luxury travel almost 140 years ago—it debuted on October 4, 1883—is being brought back to life by French hospitality group Accor, which uses the Orient… more ›
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When Liu Yang started his current job, he found it hard to go back to driving his own car: “I instinctively went for the passenger seat. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/27/1056472/life-of-chinese-robotaxi-driver/ more ›
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Migrants who have been convicted of a criminal offence will be required to scan their faces up to five times a day using smartwatches installed with facial recognition technology under… more ›
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You’re not ready for what’s coming. You’re also not alone in your unreadiness. https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/old-thinking-will-break-your-brain more ›