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Tuesday 17/April/2018 14:30 PM

No worker left behind

A week rarely goes by without a new dystopian prediction about technologically driven mass unemployment. As artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic...

Tuesday 17/April/2018 14:20 PM

Why markets can’t cool the planet

With global temperatures rising at an alarming rate, the race is on to lower the world’s consumption of fossil fuels and accelerate the adoption of...

Monday 16/April/2018 15:25 PM

Saving Venezuela

On December 6, 1998, Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela. The effects of that vote – which most agree was the last free and fair vote in that...

Sunday 15/April/2018 22:09 PM

South Korea and the end of US credibility

The US-South Korea alliance has been one of the most dramatic geopolitical success stories of the post-war years. But US President Donald Trump now seems...

Sunday 15/April/2018 21:50 PM

India’s big leaky data

India has no coltan or rare earths, little oil, and not enough water. What it does have is people – 1.3 billion and counting. That makes India potentially...