It’s happening. The United Kingdom is finally leaving the European Union. After decades of steady enlargement, the organization will lose its first member. One of the…
There is an old superstition that bad things come in three. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson may be about to find out if that is true.…
Unhappiness today arrives carrying various banners – Trump, or Brexit, or the “gilets jaunes”. Its origins typically lie in the march of technological change and globalization.…
Technology
Instead of protecting democracy – Big Tech is history’s biggest propaganda machine
January 2020Today around the world, demagogues appeal to our worst Instincts. Conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream. It’s as if the Age of…
It’s no secret to most of us that Silicon Valley’s electronic minions follow us everywhere in our pocket .They see everything, and they report everything they…
Social media in my opinion is broken. It has poisoned the way we communicate with each other and undermined the democratic process. Many of us just…
Technology
There is little chance to fire Big Tech CEO’s like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook among others
January 2020In tech today, chief executive – founders are often emperors of everything, with complete dominion over shareholders, employees, boards and their users across the planet. Big…
The first line of President Donald Trump’s obituary has been written. The House of Representatives has impeached Donald Trump, the first presidential impeachment in US history…
Trade wars rarely have victors. They do, however, sometimes have losers. And Donald Trump has definitely turned out to be a loser. That’s not the way…
We’ve got trade wars, spectacular start-ups, crypto-currencies, scandals, and mad, stomach-churning swings in the stock market. Do you feel the excitement? It’s almost like the good…