Must-read on moonshot thinking in Medical / Life-Sciences (via The Economist)
“An RNA vaccine against any disease is a message written ...
“An RNA vaccine against any disease is a message written ...
...Yet this is only the beginning, and the End of Routine does NOT mean the end of human work.
Today, I am delighted to invite all interested readers, friends, ...
What are the biggest future trends we have to get ...
Produced capital REALLY up. Human Capital: a tiny bit up. ...
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To ...
SUSTAINABLE IS THE NEW PROFITABLE. GREEN IS THE NEW DIGITAL. ...
Riffing-off, and simplifying from, a recent WEF piece here --- this will become a strong meme for 2021 (no matter what you may think about the WEF and its 'Great Reset':))
This report was just released and the results are quite ...
Tacit knowledge or implicit knowledge (as opposed to formal, codified or explicit knowledge) is the kind of knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalizing it.
What happens when four professional futurists with a knack for ...
Covid-19 has changed and continues to change everything. And the speed of change and innovation is only accelerating. For businesses to successfully navigate these massive waves of disruption is going to require a whole new way of thinking about the world, the future, and the economy writ large.
"America will always disappoint its most ardent detractors—and admirers. It’s a big, complicated place, and you can always find in it what you want. But the pandemic laid bare fissures that have been persistently widening. They were best described decades ago by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who wrote that America was defined by “private opulence and public squalor.” The United States has long had a dazzling private sector, but its public institutions, with a few exceptions—such as the independent, self-funded, and highly respected Federal Reserve—limp along. Washington can throw money at a problem, which often does the job eventually, but it cannot run a complex national program to serve a collective benefit. Social Security—whose job is mainly to write checks—works, while the Veterans Administration is a bloated, bureaucratic disaster... These ills of government are an American, not a democratic, disease. Many other democracies handled this pandemic effectively, better than any dictatorship. That list includes countries run by political parties of all stripes"