By Hazel Henderson ©2017 Watching the recent White House Correspondents dinner in Washington reminded me of a chapter in my Building a Win-Win World (1996, now an e-book), where I identified the rise of “mediocracies” and their “attention economies” as part of humanity’s Information Age. These political/economic trends emerged in …
Artificial Intelligence + Algorithms = Assumptions!
Submitted by: Hazel Henderson Posted: Aug 12, 2016 – 06:00 AM EST Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged in the public debate with Deep Mind’s recent win over a champion of the Chinese game GO. AI is all about computers getting better at solving problems formerly thought too difficult which should …
From American Sustainable Business Council-ASBcouncil.org New Globalization Trends: Nativist Patriotism v. Green Glocalization
New Globalization Trends: Nativist Patriotism v. Green Glocalization Hazel Henderson on March 19, 2017 The 2016 US election and similar trends in Europe all exhibited revolts against global corporate and financial dominance. In the US, Trump supporters, Tea Party members, Occupy Wall Street, Bernie Sanders supporters all targeted the unfairness …
Review Of 2 Books: ‘Doughnut Economics’ And ‘Another Economy Is Possible’
Jun. 1, 2017 5:56 AM ET Hazel Henderson Summary Critiques of the failures of economics as a discipline. Authors Kate Raworth in Doughnut Economics and Manuel Castells in Another Economy Is Possible provide penetrating critiques highly relevant to today’s political debates. Alternatives and practices in both markets and commons to …
Book Review: Building the New American Economy and The SIMPOL Solution
Book Review Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair and Sustainable Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Press New York, 2017 The SIMPOL Solution John Bunzl and Nick Duffell Peter Owen Publishers, London 23017 By Hazel Henderson © 2017 These two books separately offer strategies for the ongoing global transition from the …
Book Review: Thank You For Being Late-Author, Thomas Friedman
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX, NEW YORK, 2016 By Hazel Henderson © 2017 Thank You for Being Late: is Thomas Friedman’s best book yet. Friedman combines his breathless optimism and journalistic personal style with a much more advanced critique of globalization than in his earlier books. He emphasizes how the …
Book Review of Connectography: Mapping The Future of Global Civilization
Parag Khanna, Random House, NYC 2016 By Hazel Henderson © 2017 This book is bad news for President Trump’s chief advisor Steve Bannon and his colleagues at Breitbart Media. Author Parag Khanna’s meticulous mapping of our planet’s human-designed infrastructure cannot be deconstructed neither can its administrative apparatus of global agreements …
Review Of 3 Books: Homo Deus, The Undoing Project, Reinventing Prosperity
By Hazel Henderson Copyright © 2017 Hazel Henderson. All Rights Reserved. Review of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari, explores brain science and the future of human cognition. Review of The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis, looks at how cognitive biases invalidate economic models. Review of Reinventing …
Assessing Risks of Fossil Reserves: Are They Fuel Or Feedstocks?
By Hazel Henderson ©2016 The global tug-of-war between fossil fuels and cleaner greener renewable energy and advanced efficiency has come to a head. Reactionary politics in the USA produce a short-term victory for its fossilized sectors the global oil industry, OPEC and Russia. Meanwhile the cumulative $7.1 trillion already privately …
“CONCERN OVER TRUMP’S TWEETS GROWING”
Beyond the widespread misgivings, including “Never Trump Republicans”, about Trump’s fitness for the presidency are growing concerns about his erratic tweeting. Bypassing media filters, official protocols and expertise, Trump’s recent mutually congratulating phone calls with presidents of Pakistan and the Philippines and Taiwan’s leader are also raising alarms in Washington and other capitals. Chinese …