Editor's Pick Politics The Sharing Economy: Capitalism’s Last Stand? April 2, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Access over ownership. After decades of excessive consumerism, this prospect sounded revolutionary. At first. Now that the sharing economy has become mainstream, more critical voices are appearing. So, what will it be? Empowerment or exploitation? A revolution or business as usual? Before getting to the heart of the matter, I’d like to set something straight: […]
Callum Connects Interviews Sharon Tsang – Founder & CEO Anew Studios March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This article was originally published here: Sharon Tsang – Founder & CEO Anew Studios Sharon Tsang is using her experience in the fashion industry to enhance her commitment to improving the lives of women and to sustainability. What’s your story? Born in Hong Kong and raised between Hong Kong and Vancouver, I always had an […]
Callum Connects Interviews Richard Williams – Founder of 6Degrees Spa Consulting March 20, 2021March 20, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This article was originally published here: Richard Williams – Founder of 6Degrees Spa Consulting Richard Williams journey through the hospitality industry has brought him to a conviction that spas and wellness are integral to the future. What’s your story? Having worked in hospitality all my life i shifted from Food & Beverage and studied at […]
Editor's Pick Science Technology Platforms Are The Future Of Intelligence March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work and […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Politics Sociology How Progress Made Us Weak March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Until the majority of humans fell to the transformative impacts of the Machine Age some hundred or so years ago, when power generation, electricity, the automobile, factories, and telecommunications all conspired to dramatically alter how we lived and interacted, a common set of governing principles underpinned life on Earth for more than ten thousand years. […]
Callum Connects Interviews Joelle Pang – General Manager at FastJobs Asia March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked This article was originally published here: Joelle Pang – General Manager at FastJobs Asia A commitment to equal opportunities has driven Joelle Pang to develop an employment platform primarily aimed at helping blue collar workers find jobs. What’s your story? My personal mission is to enable creation for contribution to communities. I believe there is […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Politics Technology Why Technology Will Always Be The Key To Geopolitics March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Joe Biden’s remarks to the virtual Munich Security Conference on February 19 outline the variables that will be at the center of geopolitics over — at least — the next four years, and the enormous importance technology will play. It should be no surprise us that technology weighs so heavily in geopolitics: it is already present in all aspects of our […]
Editor's Pick Psychology & Wellness Science The Psychological Science Behind Happiness March 1, 2021March 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Although the study of stress and how it affects us physically and psychologically is fascinating, it is—admittedly—somewhat of a grim topic. Psychology is also interested in the study of a more upbeat and encouraging approach to human affairs—the quest for happiness. HAPPINESS The world believes that everyone should have an unalienable right to pursue happiness. But what […]
Business & Economics Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy It’s Time To Redefine The Workplace February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked A post on Salesforce’s website heralds the end of the nine-to-five era, explaining that it makes no sense to expect people to continue working in this archaic way, and proposes three new approaches: flex, fully remote and office-based, which will define how the company works when things normalize after the pandemic. The company says it expects the flex format to be adopted by the […]
Business & Economics Sociology Technology The Future Of Work January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked John Maynard Keynes first introduced the idea of technological unemployment in the 1930s. By it, he meant job loss from technological innovation. It remains a controversial topic today. That’s because some people believe technology unleashes more new jobs than it destroys, while others don’t. One of the reasons for this disagreement is that we don’t […]
How Should Tomorrow’s Economy Look Like? A few days ago, thanks to my algorithmic recommendations — not from the sources I usually read, but selected on the basis of subject matter of interest to me — I came across an article about a 57-year-old American who after being released following a 37-year jail term, was asked about his impressions of something as commonplace as a smartphone, or the […] Written by Enrique Dans April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Sharing Economy: Capitalism’s Last Stand? Access over ownership. After decades of excessive consumerism, this prospect sounded revolutionary. At first. Now that the sharing economy has become mainstream, more critical voices are appearing. So, what will it be? Empowerment or exploitation? A revolution or business as usual? Before getting to the heart of the matter, I’d like to set something straight: […] Written by Our World April 2, 2021April 6, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Discord And Microsoft: How Do You Create Momentum? The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is talking to Discord about acquiring the social audio company created in 2015, that has more than 250 million users and has so far focused primarily on creating communities of video game fans. The trigger for these talks has been the surprise success of Clubhouse, which is even smaller than Discord, but […] Written by Enrique Dans March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Just How Feasible Is A Warp Drive? It’s hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ FTL (Faster-than-Light) as a plot device. Push a button, press a pedal, and that fancy drive system – whose workings no […] Written by Universe Today March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […] Written by Getty's Blog March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked