Tag: trends
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One of the most stunning things about the technology we consume every day is the degree to which it is built, operated, and even funded by its users. https://variant.fund/articles/the-ownership-economy-crypto-and-consumer-software/ more ›
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The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person. The next cohort of Hype-Free Crypto is accepting enrollments. The previous… more ›
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MGI Research https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/dependency-and-depopulation-confronting-the-consequences-of-a-new-demographic-reality more ›
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Africa’s persisting conflicts are compounding crises of governance on the continent, straining already fragile regions and opening the door to foreign exploitation through proxy forces, resource trafficking, and information manipulation.… more ›
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Zainab Usman, director of the Africa Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC. On trade there will be a lot of uncertainty around the future of the Africa Growth… more ›
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The incoming administration should think twice before ignoring the Africa portfolio. https://www.cfr.org/blog/whats-stake-africa-2025 more ›
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For a millennium or so, cool has meant low in temperature, and temperature itself has long been a metaphor for psychological and emotional states (a cool reception, hotheaded). Chaucer,… more ›
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It’s that time of the year again and it’s juicier than ever! With a presidential election, the Olympics in Paris, sexually charged viral videos, a rare solar eclipse, and iconic… more ›
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We’ve covered 2024 as the fragmentation election, and media analysts mostly assume fragmentation will continue — more and more podcasts and Substacks and hyper-personalized TikTok accounts, and a weaker and… more ›
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Riley FortierWhen you drive towards Peru’s Boiling River, along a bumpy, four-hour track through the rainforest, it’s only after you transcend a crest in the landscape that you see it… more ›