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Europe needs national champions, now
Europe faces an existential crisis. Long an innovation, technology and manufacturing hub, its greatest companies and wider industries have been hit hard by competition from American tech giants like …
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
How can we make the internet fun again?
Something is rotten in the state of the internet. Social networks that were once meant to be entertaining diversions have become riven with vituperative political combat that leaves all but the most …
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Making shoes isn’t the right strategy
The markets have massively gyrated the past few weeks as hourly pronouncements from the White House and Mar-a-Lago seize investors with terror or relieve them of stress. At the heart of the vociferou…
Published on 5 months ago
The hyper-competition of U.S.-China trade relations
With the launch of President Trump’s trade war this week, few countries are more at risk than China. Faced with a sudden and massive expansion of tariffs as well as changes to the de minimis parcel r…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
“You can cause a lot of havoc with a cell phone and a cheap DJI drone”
Chaos is the rule of the day, with markets, companies, governments and individuals being rapidly buffeted by events and change. Technology is exacerbating that chaos by offering asymmetric leverage t…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why immersion — and not realism — is critical for wargaming
Despite centuries of experience designing and playing war games, there is still very little rigorous research on how to evaluate what makes a good game. What’s the design goal? How much should (or ev…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
“We have an addiction to prediction”
Humans hate uncertainty, which means we are constantly looking for means to narrowly consider the future and its implications. Planning, predicting and debating what’s next may be the mainstay of any…
Published on 6 months ago
“Every system can be gamed”
AI and democracy are in great tension with each other. AI models are built by a priesthood of research specialists, unmoored from the will of the public. Yet, these very models are increasingly runni…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Americans are an incredibly generous people
Amidst the upheaval in Washington, D.C. these days, one of the most notable and controversial decision from the second Trump administration has been the dismantling and closure of the United States A…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
How America holds it all together
There are two sides of America. One is the country’s world-leading innovation centers, which offer the highest salaries and potential wealth creation anywhere in the world. The other is the bleak dei…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago