Second Industrial Revolution

Trump's tariff plan looks like a deliberate attempt to destroy the current global economic system and replace it with something better—and no one can predict what that would look like.

The former presidential candidate is seeking the top office in his home state after a brief stint on President Trump's cost-cutting task force alongside Elon Musk.

Developed countries are adopting protectionist economic policies that slow globalization. But the force that shaped the modern world is not yet spent.

WASHINGTON DC, Jan 16 (IPS) - We are on the brink of a technological revolution that could jumpstart productivity, boost global growth and raise incomes around the world. Yet it could also replace jobs and deepen inequality.

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva writes that AI advancements have put the world on the brink of a technological revolution that could increase productivity, raise incomes, and...

European efforts to regulate artificial intelligence show how hard it is to harness such a fast-moving phenomenon at the heart of global society.

The progressive journey of automotive innovation is a captivating narrative interwoven with the trajectories of insightful inventors, innovative designs, and transformative industrial revolutions. Groundbreaking conceptions first launched by steam engine prototypes in the 18th century paved the...

AI is far more empowering than the web ever was

Can States Learn to Govern Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late?

Will large language models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, drive a paradigm shift across our economies?

The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilization is a source of extraordinary pride in East Africa, as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland countries like Uganda and Rwanda, far from the Indian Ocean shore where the culture developed nearly two millennia ago.

The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilization is a source of extraordinary pride in East Africa, as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland countries like Uganda and Rwanda, far from the Indian Ocean shore where the culture developed nearly two millen...

John Perlin's sweeping, civilizational history 'A Forest Journey' is being revived by Patagonia, the Ventura-based outfitter's publishing imprint.

"Atoms" technologies might bring back fast productivity growth

We have developed a culture of immediacy that has made us impatient and, in the long term, could also make us incompetent. This post explores this assertion in detail.

With the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies, virtual or digital workers may threaten some jobs even as they boost other opportunities.

In 2019, sociologist Manuel Castells categorically stated that liberal democracy has exhausted its historical trajectory and, quoting some verses by Octavio Paz, expressed: "Not what it could have been:/it is what it was./And what it was is dead." In this paper, we will reflect on this diagnosis based on five interrelated questions. To what extent is liberal democracy being affected by the current informational…

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the global economy, with the total cost likely to exceed US$12.5 trillion dollars according to International Monetary Fund estimates.

For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were making chipped stone flakes and crude choppers. Two million years ago, hand-axes. A million years ago, primitive humans sometimes used fire, but with difficulty. Then, 500,000 years ago, technological change accelerated, as spearpoints, firemaking, axes, beads and bows appeared.

Rather than ridiculing President's Trump's taste, responses to the Kennedy Center takeover would be better placed focusing on more fundamental questions about the role of U.S. government in the nation's artistic life.