Category: Business
The Killing of United Healthcare’s CEO in New York City
Response to CEO killing reveals antipathy toward health insurers − but entire patchwork system is to blame for ill feeling
AI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality
That’s now possible, according to a new paper from a team including researchers from Stanford and Google DeepMind.
Why Climate Summit Keeps Failing
“All this means we are still looking at a future with global warming above 3˚C,” say climate scientist Mark Maslin…
Reckoning With Growth
Though there had been 600 years of dramatic change before 1750, these changes did not increase the standard of living of ordinary citizen of England.
Economic Populism: Republicans For Labor
“We’re for American workers who want to build a life in their homes with dignified jobs and raise the families supported by those dignified jobs.”
Factory Robot Convinces 12 Other Robots to Go on Strike
A real-life sci-fi scenario unfolded in Shanghai, China, when a small AI-powered robot managed to…
How Thames Water Squandered Its Thatcher-Era Monopoly
Thames Water has gone billions of dollars in debt. How did they manage to bleed their cash cow dry?
How ‘Miracle’ Weight-Loss Drugs Will Change the World
Welcome to the healthier, happier world of 2030. Heart attacks and strokes are down 20%. A drop in food consumption has left more money in people’s wallets.
The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
“Most of the law professors and judges who read it were polite enough to say the arguments were thought provoking, but…”
Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley
Henry Farrell in American Affairs on Silicon Valley’s Never-Ending Search for Exit Opportunities…
Can We Engineer Our Way Out of Climate Change?
Harvard Univ. reports engineering strategies: solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, and ocean fertilization, etc.
Can We Keep Producing More Food in a Warmer World?
Can we reinvent agriculture for a low-carbon world without people going hungry? Change will be dirty at first but could get cleaner.