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May 14, 2024 · The world has seen an explosion in aging research in recent decades, with billions of dollars spent by government agencies and private companies. And the consumer market for products is forecast to hit $93 billion by 2027. As a result, false or exaggerated claims by companies promising longer life are currently on the rise, Ramakrishnan noted.
- Key Characteristics of A Revolution
- Why Today’S Protests Are Not Revolutionary
- Why Is There So Much Anger?
- Rebellions with New Characteristics
As an historian of the French Revolution of 1789-99, I often ponder the similarities between the five great revolutions of the modern world – the English Revolution (1649), American Revolution (1776), French Revolution (1789), Russian Revolution (1917) and Chinese Revolution (1949). A key question today is whether the rebellions we are currently wi...
This model indicates the upheavals in our contemporary world are not revolutionary – or not yet. The most likely to become revolutionary is in Iraq, where the regime has shown a willingness to kill its own citizens (more than 300 in October alone). This indicates that any concessions to demonstrators will inevitably be regarded as inadequate. We do...
Fundamental to an understanding of the rage so evident today is the “democratic deficit”. This refers to public anger at the way the high-water mark of democratic reform around the globe in the 1990s – accompanied by the siren song of economic globalisation – has had such uneven social outcomes. One expression of this anger has been the rise of fea...
Of course, we do not know how these protest movements will end. While it is unlikely any of the rebellions will result in revolutionary change, we are witnessing distinctly 21st century upheavals with new characteristics. One of the most influential approaches to understanding the long-term history and nature of protest and insurrection has come fr...
- Peter Mcphee
Feb 18, 2021 · We have already seen this with Amazon, Alibaba, Google and the like for their respective industries. We will now see this spread to other work-from-home industries: more agglomeration, but this time happening in the digital world, and not requiring geographical concentration itself. Civil liberties were severely curtailed during COVID-19.
- Sara Atske
Mar 31, 2024 · This edition of Flash Points examines the nature of revolutions and revolutionaries past and present, from Europe’s political tumult in 1848 to the post-Soviet “color revolutions” that ...
Sep 1, 2023 · September 1, 2023 7:05 AM EDT. Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, in 2010 he co-founded DeepMind, which was acquired by Google, and is the author of the upcoming book The Coming ...
- Mustafa Suleyman
Mar 20, 2023 · The real story of progress today is its remarkable expansion to the rest of the world in recent decades. In 1950, life expectancy in Africa was just 40; today, it’s past 62. Meanwhile more than ...
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It means we're figuring out how to, in Steve Jobs's famous formulation, work smarter. If TFP goes flat, then so do living standards. And TFP has gone flat — or at least flatter — in recent ...
