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Questing for Economic Utopia (Part 2)
Society does not serve the economy. The economy serves society. That seems obvious, and yet core to redrawing the maps that guide us toward “prosperity”. The first Renaissance proved powerfully
Questing for Economic Utopia (Part 1)
This year is the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that, in the midst of the political, social and technological upheavals of the first Renaissance, imagined a radically
Mundus Novus
I hope everyone had a great summer (or winter, depending on your hemisphere). It was a busy few months of writing, researching, travel, reflecting and speaking for me. A common
Montezuma’s Bane (a.k.a. Fake News)
I’ve been in Australia for the past couple weeks to write, to research—and occasionally, to share with other people what I’m writing and researching about. Highlights included a talk at
Civilization Starts Now
For months now, I’ve been trading letters with Doug Robertson, author of two impactful books in the philosophy of science: The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization
Artificial Intelligence is like Riding a Bicycle
One of the hottest stories here in China last week received far less coverage outside the country: the Human-vs-Machine Go Showdown, between the world’s top Go player, Ke Jie, and
Grinding a New Lens
The world always makes sense. But it doesn’t always make sense to us. Shock—a seemingly relentless theme nowadays—is personal proof that whatever lens we’ve been looking through to see the world
One Week, Two Flawed Visions
Trump’s anti-globalist vision of putting ‘America first’ to ‘Make America great again’ is explicitly outdated. Such a lens is a clear error in political leadership, since even if the Trump
On the Cover of Vogue Australia
My New Year’s reflection, ‘2017: Why It’s (Still) the Best Time to be Alive’, was chosen as the cover story for the January issue of Vogue Australia. Was great to work
#AoD is Named a Best Business Book of 2016—Again!
Mitch Joel, social media guru and “one of North America’s leading digital visionaries“, has just come out with his list of Best Business Books of 2016, and Age of Discovery
Making Sense of the Moment We’re In — on the BBC…
I went onto BBC World News in the aftermath of the US presidential election to explain how Age of Discovery made both Brexit and Trump predictable.
Hope and determination in the Time of Trump
This is not an ordinary day. This is one of those rare days when events jar us enough that we unfix the lens through which we understand the moment we
A CLEAR SIGNAL THROUGH THE NOISE
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