Vision of Transformation
Francis Fukuyama published his book, The End of History in 1992. He argued that, with the cold war over and liberal democracy triumphant, the major historical narrative dialectic of history was over.
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China’s economy is undergoing a structural slowdown.
China has been way out front as the world’s most important source of economic growth for years. China has the world’s second largest economy and it continues to grow at a rapid clip but it is cooling as other enormous economies heat up.
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Insects may be the food of the future.
In Western societies, eating insects is considered disgusting or even primitive. But 2 billion people elsewhere consume insects on a regular basis. According to a report released last month by the UN, the benefits of using insects as food is so great that it is high time we convert the other 5 billion people into insect-eaters.
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Job quality is worsening around the globe, even where the unemployment rate is falling.
The “World of Work” annual report has been released by the UN’s International Labor Organization, and boy the results are depressing.
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The rich got richer, and the poor kept on getting poorer.
In 2010, Zero Hedge started an annual series looking at the (re)distribution in the wealth of nations and social classes. What they found then (and what the media keeps rediscovering year after year to its great surprise) is that as a result of global central bank policy, the rich got richer, and the poor kept on getting poorer, even though as they predicted the global political powers would, at least superficially, seek to enforce policies that aimed to reverse this wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich (a doomed policy as the world’s legislative powers are largely in the lobby pocket of the world’s wealthiest who needless to say are less then willing to enact laws that reduce their wealth and leverage).
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Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok is now the most visited city in the world by international tourists, according to the new Global Destination City Index, eking out London by less than one percent. But foreign visitors still spend more in New York than any other city by a wide margin.
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Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness!
Quote of the Day: “Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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4G networks have yet to launched in some parts of the world, including China. But Samsung is already promising to deliver high speed 5G wireless data connections to consumers by 2020. The claim comes as the firm announced it had developed its first core technology for fifth-generation networks.
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Currently in the business world we are witnessing something like the epic collision of two galaxies — a rapid convergence of two very unlike systems that will cause the elements of both to realign. It’s all thanks to the Internet of Things.
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Luxury goods ecommerce soars.
The worldwide appetite for luxury goods doesn’t seem to have been slowed down by concerns about the state of the global economy, according to research released by business consulting firm Bain & Company in October 2012. In fact, total demand for luxury goods has remained very strong, with worldwide revenues estimated to have grown 10% in 2012.
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Global energy an utilities sectors faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity.
Gartner, Inc. has released a new report that identifies the top ten technology trends affecting the global energy and utility markets in 2013, as the industry faces significant challenges from ongoing environmental sensitivity, changing policymaker attitudes and consumer expectations.
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Quantifying innovation, especially on a large scale, is incredibly difficult. But, Solidiance, an Asian marketing and innovation strategy consulting firm, is trying to do with its list of the most innovative cities in the Asia Pacific region.
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