Dove va il mondo
“First, a counterfactual. Had Kamala Harris won, The Economist would have had a different shortlist for its annual “word of the year”. Fonte: The Economist Link: The Economist’s word of the year for 2024
“But there is one thing Gen Z, millennials, Gen Xers and boomers agree on: that meetings themselves are often unproductive, unenjoyable and take up too much time”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Grace Lordan Link: Is your boss talking too much? AI can tell them
Fonte: The Washington Post Autore: Edith Pritchett Link: The different stages of Black Friday
“There may be no more justifiable target for the budget cutters of the second Trump administration than the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. After all, what rationale is there in the age of ubiquitous streaming and podcasts for government to support television and radio via legislation virtually unchanged since 1967?”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: […]
“Javier Milei has been president of Argentina for a year. He campaigned wielding a chainsaw, but his economic programme is serious and one of the most radical doses of free-market medicine since Thatcherism. It comes with risks, if only because of Argentina’s history of instability and Mr Milei’s explosive personality. But the lessons are striking, […]
“The Israel-Gaza war poses multiple challenges for President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration. But the former president has proposed a plan for peace in the region before. The question is: can he be convinced to pursue it again?” Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Thomas L. Friedman Link: Trump’s Path to a Nobel Peace Prize?
“But what if, beneath the surface of mainstream culture, there was a world of wild imagination waiting to be discovered — if only a powerful force would stop suppressing it?” Fonte: The New York Times Autore: Kirby Ferguson Link: Is Creativity Dead?
“The pro-Putin, far-right politician who surprisingly won the first round of Romania’s presidential elections on Sunday had recently gone viral on social media without pollsters registering his surge”. Fonte: Financial Times Autore: Marton Dunai Link: How a pro-Putin TikTok star topped Romania’s presidential poll
“The main purpose of the meeting was to put to bed a couple of issues left over from COPs past. In 2015, the Paris agreement struck at COP21 said the UN system needed new rules for trading carbon credits. In 2021 in Glasgow the attendees committed themselves to a “New Collective Quantified Goal” for climate […]
“At a conference in 2012, Elon Musk met Demis Hassabis, the video-game designer and artificial–intelligence researcher who had co-founded a company named DeepMind that sought to design computers that could learn how to think like humans”. Fonte: TIME Autore: Walter Isaacson Link: Inside Elon Musk’s Struggle for the Future of AI
