China and India, two of the world’s oldest civilizations, are also two of the fastest growing. Until the year 1000 AD, China and India accounted for a quarter and a third, respectively, of all economic activity in the world. By the time the Industrial Revolution took hold in the late 19th century, however, both India and China had lost the economic… Read more →
The World has been Flat for more than a decade, and our worldwide market continues bringing people and countries closer and closer. Competition and opportunity increase as technology travels across the globe in milliseconds. Collectively tuned into streams of newsfeeds, with an on-demand global database of knowledge at our fingertips, we are of a century awash in innovation. Businesses and people,… Read more →
A deficit in jobs, or surplus in graduates, is especially troublesome for unemployed and underemployed young people that need lower levels of debt and higher salaries to make it in the new normal economy. Read more →
It’s been a rough year, a rough month, a rough week. Police shooting minorities, police being shot; Brexit creating global uncertainty; thousands of people dying in Syria including an uptick in child suicides; another terror attack in France; China vowing to ignore an international tribunal ruling in favor of the Philippines; a US Presidential election where almost nobody really likes… Read more →
Wind power, one the cleanest forms of alternative energy, is great for the environment: it’s plentiful, renewable, uses no water and little land, and is on the rise globally. Wind farms, consisting of many individual wind turbines, are normally used in conjunction with other electricity sources or storage to provide consistent energy. Wind power is playing an increasing part in… Read more →
The media is awash in discussions of bitcoin as the cryptocurrency increasingly is seen alongside gold, the dollar and the yen as stores of value in times of uncertainty. Brexit has increased the concern just at the time that there is going to be a fundamental change in how bitcoins are generated. Known as the halving, or slightly more fun,… Read more →
Similar to Bitcoin, ether is exchanged on a decentralized platform, in this case Ethereum. There, connected devices barter with computing power through blockchains. This could have far-reaching implications for the Internet of Things. Read more →
Our world continues to be transformed by rapid advancements in science and technology. From our phones to our fashion, planes to plastics, and meals to media, groundbreaking research continually yields exciting innovations. The ongoing promise of these new developments, especially in the healthcare sector, illuminates a sometimes gloomy horizon. Dramatic improvements in healthcare over the last few centuries have carried… Read more →
There are a lot of press articles and books out recently on distributed ledger technology. Two of the most promising were just published earlier in May. Take a read and let me know what you think: The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and… Read more →
Solar energy continues to grow by leaps in bounds in the US, recently passing 1 million installations. However, solar only makes up 1% of the electricity generation in the US for the 12 months ending February 2016. This is not a knock on solar. It is starting from a low base. Solar made up almost 30 percent of all new… Read more →
