Tag: global affairs

• The State of the Platform Revolution 2021

  January 17, 2021

  It’s finally here! I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our annual report on the key themes of the platform economy for the year 2020-21. (Download link towards the end… more ›

• Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2021

  January 12, 2021

  2021 will be a year of profound and rapid digital change following the shock delivered by Covid-19. Lockdowns and other restrictions have broken old habits and created new ones, but… more ›

• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text

  January 12, 2021

  We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language. We find that DALL·E is able to create… more ›

• He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.

  January 11, 2021

  Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?  “Pods,” personal online data stores, are… more ›

• This Is Why You Heard About TikTok So Much in 2020

  January 4, 2021

  It’s been well over two years since TikTok arrived in the United States in August 2018, offering a rejoinder to anyone who thought social media had lost its way. The… more ›

• Blackwater contractor defends actions in Iraq after Trump pardon

  January 2, 2021

  One of four Blackwater employees pardoned by Trump says he ‘acted correctly’ during a deadly 2007 shooting rampage in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/2/blackwater-contractor-defends-actions-iraq-after-trump-pardon more ›

• The New-Style Pop Histories Making Socialism Cool Again

  January 2, 2021

  This article is the first in a three-part series on the ways online historians and writers are shaping the worldviews and mindsets of young Chinese. Who is the greatest figure… more ›

• 2020: Jair Bolsonaro

  January 2, 2021

  Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, has been named the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s 2020 Person of the Year for his role in promoting organized crime and corruption. https://www.occrp.org/en/poy/2020/ more ›

• Why is this interesting? – The Feral Cities Edition

  January 2, 2021

  In a feral city social services are all but nonexistent, and the vast majority of the city’s occupants have no access to even the most basic health or security assistance.… more ›

• Mexican Cartel Tactical Note #48: Video of CJNG Engagement of Autodefensa Mounted Infantry in IAFV in La Bocanda, Michoacán

  December 31, 2020

  Dr. Robert J. Bunker is Director of Research and Analysis, C/O Futures, LLC, and an Instructor at the Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of… more ›