Have Silicon Valley’s biggest companies become too powerful? This series examines monopoly and power in the tech industry — and what, if anything, can be done. Network Effects – Path […]
Alien Knowledge – When Machines Justify Knowledge
The infusion of AI (alien intelligence) is bringing into question the assumptions embedded in our long Western tradition. We thought knowledge was about finding the order hidden in the chaos. […]
China’s Greening of the Vast Kubuqi Desert is a Model for Land Restoration Projects Everywhere
the lessons learned in Kubuqi will prove invaluable in a country that boasts the world’s largest population but only 7% of its arable fields, and where 27% of the land […]
ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF A NEW GOLDEN AGE?
A long-wave theory of technological and economic change suggests the financial malaise that began in 2007 may be about to end. History doesn’t exactly repeat itself, but it does run […]
The Human Strategy A Conversation With Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Accounting is a universal function upon which all life and even Algorithmic Intelligence if founded. Social Fabric is Social Accounting. The article is a transcript of a 29 minute video […]