Tag: trends
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Martin Sorrell, executive chairman at S4 Capital, took the stage at Spikes Asia 2024 on Thursday to a packed house with a cagey audience that didn’t respond well to a… more ›
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In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a groundbreaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might… more ›
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The 2000s were the decade of the First China Shock. As far as I know, the term “China Shock” was coined by the economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon… more ›
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For the past three years I’ve been talking up a new age of energy abundance. First of all, the U.S. just became energy independent for the first time in many… more ›
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In the fall of 2023, a clip ripped from a video by Tom Simons and reposted on X (formerly Twitter) saw Irish YouTube entertainer Seán “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin strapped to a… more ›
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The number of children who died before their fifth birthday has reached a historic low, dropping to 4.9 million in 2022, according to the latest estimates released today by the… more ›
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These tools will struggle at times to live up to all of the hype, including what I’ve posited here. https://www.importantnotimportant.com/p/the-unknown-unknowns more ›
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Audience development roles became ever more challenging in 2023 with Big Tech pivots, new platform launches, and the unknown threats and opportunities of generative AI. In 2024, we’ll need new… more ›
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The transition to a net-zero carbon economy will be straightforward: we just roll out cheap clean energy technologies, become more energy efficient every year, keep innovating and stop chopping down… more ›