Discover the invisible shifting trade world

Ed Conway, Economic Editor at Sky News, award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Material World, whose latest book Trade World, focuses from ancient civilizations, empire and globalisation through to the most influential geopolitical issues of our times. This is the story of humanity. From the copper in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon atoms within the chip inside your smartphone, intricate global trading networks have evolved over millennia to fulfil the distinctly human desire to buy and sell. Trump’s traffics hasn’t reined in global commerce, In fact, it is growing every further and stronger. This surge is doubly surprising, given … Continue reading Discover the invisible shifting trade world

Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

Palantir Technologies, a company that is intertwined with the national security state, Silicon Valley’s utopian tech thinking was always untethered from reality and it’s a good thing that it is now ending. Palantir’s co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska claims that in order for the West to retain its global edge – and preserve the freedoms we take for granted – the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our urgent challenges, including the new arms race for artificial intelligence. Government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that have … Continue reading Has Silicon Valley lost its way?