With the Supreme Court upholding most of the Affordable Care Act, more Americans will find affordable health insurance, conclude Urban Institute researchers. States may opt out of a Medicaid expansion to low-income adults,… Read More
Since its collapse in autumn 2008, the world economy has gone through three phases: a year or more of rapid decline; a bounce back in 2009–10, which nevertheless did not amount to a… Read More
Has the solar-power industry lapsed into a classic cycle of boom and bust after a decade of unprecedented growth? It might appear so. As years of government subsidies boosted the global installed… Read More
January 27, 2012 Every business needs to “go digital” if it is to capitalize on the dramatic transformation of the Internet across the world’s biggest economies over the next five years, while governments… Read More
The author’s keynote presentation at last year’s WorldFuture 2011 conference in Vancouver introduced a series of Eight Grand Challenges — incentivized competitions designed to push humanity to another level. When there are so… Read More
This article is a tribute of love to Germany. As Aüslander, ( immigrant), it will be easy to let frustration and the feeling to be considered too often like a second class citizen… Read More
Strategic Global Outlook: 2030 / Ed. by Alexander A. Dynkin. Moscow, IMEMO RAN, 2011, 56 p. Strategic Global Outlook: 2030 is an interdisciplinary study prepared by the panel of experts with long experience… Read More
Cognitive computing, computers that process information the same way a brain does has been a dream for 50 years. Artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, and neural networks have all experienced some degrees of success,… Read More
Global System Architects – Emerging New Power BrokersI often describe the future with human-like characteristics. By doing so, it helps me think through our relationship with the future in novel ways. So here… Read More
