Vi lider nå under et angrep av fanatisk teknologi-optimisme. Det er vanlig å høre foredragsholdere forkynne at vi står på randen til en ny epoke med eksponentiell økonomisk vekst i det 21. århundre; at vi er i ferd med å… Read More ›
The Google system of the world is an evil empire that stifles entrepreneurial activity and is doomed to fail, before a decentralised Internet will rise from the ashes, argues George Gilder in his latest book. On the face of it… Read More ›
Businesses can achieve global scale faster than ever in the Networked Age, argues LinkedIn-founder Reid Hoffman in his new book, but must grow fast or die slow in a brutal market where the winner takes all. Blitzscaling — The lightning-fast path to… Read More ›
Titania McGrath har skrevet årets viktigste bok. Hvis du ikke leser den er du mest sannsynlig en fascist. Hun er internettsensasjonen, den post-moderne feministiske inkarnasjonen av Jeanne D’Arc som holder håpet oppe for Millennials opptatt av sosial rettferdighet, etter kriseåret… Read More ›
Michelle Obama’s Becoming has sold more than 10 million copies since its release before Christmas, and is on-track to become the most-selling memoir of all time, according to publisher Bertelsmann. Given her global superstar profile a Michelle Obama memoir would… Read More ›
The Mueller Report delivers the death blow to the reputation of American MSM news media, argues Matt Taibi (who is not known as a partisan of Trumpland): There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign… Read More ›
I first encountered Umberto Eco’s idea of the Antilibrary when reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan in high school in 2007. The idea made immediate sense to me, as I presume it would to anyone having experienced the overwhelming… Read More ›
Scientists should not ask questions that may have uncomfortable answers. Peter Conradi in The Sunday Times interviewing Alessandro Strumia, the Italian professor of theoretical physics who was fired by CERN, sanctioned by (his employer) the University of Pisa and publicly… Read More ›
Richard Spencer reviewing the Sana’a, Yemen-based Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s Arabs — A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires in The Times (of London): “The word ‘politics’ derives from the Greek ‘polis’, a city, and represents a collective endeavour; siyasah, the standard Arabic translation,… Read More ›
Tourists, street vendors and rickshaw cabs are destroying Barcelona, and it is really time for them to go home. Last weekend I visited Barcelona for the first time in close to a decade. While the combination of big city and… Read More ›
