Wired’s Danger Room points us to The Final Arthur C. Clarke Interview. Clarke gave few interviews later in life and this offers a good summary of why the man was important and what he was thinking about toward the end of his life. He, as always, has interesting and sensible comments about our future in [...]
[Globalization and Robots Edition]
Lessons from the 1000 years of history of trade and war - “One striking feature of today’s international economy is that, as in the 19th century, regions with very different factor endowments are being drawn into closer contact with each other, as what used to be known as the Third World opens [...]
Hey! Southern Neighbours! Thanks so much, Mr. President, for shooting down your highly classified spy satellite full of toxic hyrdazine over our Pacific Coast. Even though the risk to humans was infinitesimally small, we all know that you’ll pay any price to protect people from harm — not matter how remote or unlikely. [...]