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Hoover Institution • Peter Thiel and Andy Kessler on the state of technology and innovation
The Industrial Age marks a distinct and remarkable phase in the history of globalization. For the first time in history, technological progress was rapid enough and broad enough to create sustained and rapid increases in material living standards. For the first 150 years of the new age, the economic gains went overwhelmingly to a small part of huma
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
No one, including President Johnson, foresaw America’s first loss of a war, any more than the day’s tear gas victims pictured Selma as the last great thrust of a movement built on patriotic idealism. It was a turning point. The tide of confidence in equal citizenship had swelled over decades to confront segregation as well as the Nazis, and would r
... See moreTaylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
The crisis of the 2020s will be abnormal not only because the two crises will combine into one but because the United States has reached an unprecedented point in its history. It has become the preeminent power in the world, and it doesn’t know if it wants the honor or how to manage it. This frames and intensifies the coming crisis of the 2020s.