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Map #45: Are We Stuck or Liberated?
I received an unexpected gift this week: a meteorite. It’s a rare and valuable, 4.6 billion-year-old piece of space metal that, way out there, was protected from the forces of
Map #44: How can A.I. best serve humanity?
I want to swing your attention back to AI for a moment. I’ve just read an important new book on the subject, and it has gifted me a new framework
Map #43: Whose Ideas Will Govern The Future?
This wasn’t the essay I intended to write this week, but I read an article in Canada’s Globe & Mail that struck me as so dangerously over-simple, I simply had
Map #42: The Renaissance Expedition
This week, I’m taking the ideas that are coming out of this global Renaissance Expedition to New Zealand, where the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will be hosting Ōhanga Āmiomio, the world’s
Map #41: Is the Truth a Lie?
Don’t just do something; sit there! Happy February! For this letter, I’ve consolidated a couple weeks of research and writing into one “long read” for you. Best served with a
Map #40: Corrupted Currencies and the Path to Collapse
Happy New Year! (Can I still say that? I say it all January…in part because my friends in China are just about to celebrate theirs. February 5th, Year of the
Map #39: The Atlas Project
This will be my last letter of 2018, and I want to begin it by thanking you for being a kind, patient and generous reader during the year. These letters
Map #38: Gullible? Or Receptive? Social Media is Full of (Self)Truths (Part I)
Should we (still) ‘let social media run amok’? Ah, Brexit. To be in London is to be confronted at all times, from all sides, from traditional and social media, with
Map #37: (Whose) Future of (What) Work
Says the Futurist: “The future is just over the horizon!” To which the social scientist replied: “Isn’t ‘the horizon’ an imaginary line that moves farther away as you approach it?”
Map 36: Markets vs Morals (Or, The Unstoppable Force vs The Unquenchable Fire)
I was on stage at the Oslo Business Forum earlier this week. (Email me if you’d like a copy of my slides.) The day opened with CNN anchor Richard Quest
Map #35: Fake News—Or Honest Propaganda?
“I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appear from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give
Map #34: The American Dream—Or Fantasyland?
After my last letter (which took a deep dive into my friends’ research on the “power of doubt”) and with Donald Trump here in Europe for meetings with NATO, the Queen of England and
A CLEAR SIGNAL THROUGH THE NOISE
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