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In 1999 Thomas Friedman published The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. It was Das Kapital for Smart America. In Friedman’s account, globalization is the organizing system of the post–Cold War era, but, unlike the Cold War, it is the result of technological advances and blind economic forces, not government policies. Rejecting
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Things were so different when I first became interested in technology back in 1992! True, I was a teenager then, and I firmly believed that the US was that terrible country presided over by the arch-conservatives Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Viewed from Europe, this was a country where sick people died in the streets because no one would lif
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
And the decade from 2020 to 2030 will already be very painful from the crises caused by the intersection of the two major cycles. Add to it that a core technology is running its course and no new core technology has yet replaced it, and that pain increases.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The 2020s will be a period of failures. The 2030s and beyond will be a period of creation.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The big question for the future is, what is the next transformative technology and how do we recognize it in its early form?
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
In his conceptualization of the Asian market, Jim Hill was both a prophet and a dreamer. He did foresee the remarkable evolution of the Pacific Rim–Southeast Asian economies that would come to fruition more than a half-century after his demise.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
The narrative of Free America remained as inflexible as any ideology: tax cuts and deregulation = freedom and prosperity. Decade after decade you encountered its mantra, like the rituals of a cargo cult, on the website of the Cato Institute, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, broadcasts of The Rush Limbaugh Show, and the platform of the
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