Tag: tbm
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In the 2010s, everyone knew that China was “the future”. In the 2020s, it feels more like the present. China has fully arrived on the world stage. We thus have… more ›
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The blueprint for modern digital computing was codesigned by Charles Babbage, a vocal champion for the concerns of the emerging industrial capitalist class who condemned organized workers and viewed democracy… more ›
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This year’s edition of the World Energy Investment provides a full update on the investment picture in 2022 and an initial reading of the emerging picture for 2023. The report… more ›
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Our model is based on the fact that across history, what creates the risk of political instability is the behavior of elites, who all too often react to long-term increases… more ›
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A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power. The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history… more ›
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Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship. The vessel was preserved by Athenian citizens, who continually… more ›
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The post-Cold War moment, a 30-year period when globalisation and free trade were orchestrated under the aegis of American supremacy, is ending. As the historian Anders Stephanson has written, “One… more ›
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Private jets have rightfully earned their reputation as symbols of excess. As society’s wealth has concentrated in fewer hands over the last several decades, there has been an explosion in… more ›
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You might want to write these words off as mere figures of speech, but in a way that’s the point. What is a chatbot other than a figure — a mask, a… more ›
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Nita Farahany is a professor at Duke University School of Law and the author of “The Battle for Your Brain.” Her work focuses on the ethical, legal, and social implications… more ›