Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Kurt Cobb fantasies of perpetual economic growth have lulled us into thinking we are entitled to perpetual financial gains. I believe those fantasies are about to be tested in the near future.
Tariffs on copper imported into the United States will not result in self-sufficiency for the country anytime soon, if ever.
Denmark is about to give its citizens ownership rights in their images and voices to protect them from unscrupulous AI-generated deep fakes. I think the ownership of personal information should go a lot further.
Find out what Pepto Bismol and Chinese trade policy have to do with one another.
The conflicts we see today may have many causes, but the fight over resources and the consequences of climate change are ever more relevant.
The increasing costs of climate-change linked disasters is pushing the insurance industry to the brink.
I warned in March that in response to the Trump administration’s trade war, China would likely resort to squeezing supply of critical materials it controls. Now it’s happening.
Convenience has become a central selling point for practically every consumer product or service. But it can be a perilous lure when it comes to our online interactions with government.
Aging, crumbling transportation and electrical infrastructure in America is exposing us to possible catastrophic, cascading failures.
As AI is “improved,” it has more “hallucinations.” When will the public and investors realize that reliability will always be a problem when there is no judgement based on lived experience?
Our political discourse is actually far narrower than our total public discourse which makes addressing big problems such as climate change very difficult.
It’s difficult to see the knock-on effects of our actions and it can be very dangerous not to.
