Geopolitics

I was shopping for better Wi-Fi. Consistent, powerful, light weight and portable. Foreign policy wasn’t on my checklist. A news report made me reconsider what I would actually be buying. Technology can give us greater freedom while leaving someone else with considerable authority over whether we can keep using it. As organisations build around that capability, the implications reach into hiring, customer commitments and strategy. Whose decisions would my new independence dep

Madeleine Albright, AI and the consequences that begin after a decision succeeds There was an article in the New York Times last week about an economist who had created a John Maynard Keynes bot and asked what Keynes might make of artificial intelligence and the economy today. It made me wonder what would happen if I did something similar with Madeleine Albright. I wanted to know what she might make of current world events and, more importantly, where she thought they were le

Tariffs create immediate economic pressure, but repeated tariffs can have a longer-term effect that changes how countries, businesses and markets respond. The leverage created by pressure can weaken over time as systems learn how to absorb it. How do leaders interpret it? As a problem to contain, or as a review of vulnerabilities, dependence and relationships?