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Technology

The Great Connectors

Just as the Industrial Revolution was driven by combining the steam engine with ingenious machinery, the Digital Revolution has been driven by two great innovations: the personal computer and the Internet. Together, they shifted influence from an old establishment to a new one led by the pioneers of technology, information, and entertainment.

BY Walter Isaacson

Blog Post

12.22.2014
Communications

Socrates in Silicon Valley

The denizens of Silicon Valley appear oblivious to how the outside world’s perception of them has changed, and radically so. Once universally revered as a hotbed of innovation, the world’s premier technology hub is increasingly viewed with suspicion and resentment.

BY Lucy P. Marcus

Blog Post

12.16.2014
National Security

On America, Torture Revelations and our Foreign Policy

In the aftermath of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on enhanced interrogation techniques, the Washington Post columnist and the New York Times Washington correspondent discuss the shortcomings of the report and how it will impact foreign policy in the future.

BY David Ignatius, & 1 more

Blog Post

12.11.2014
Climate Change

Investing to Address Climate Change Abroad

As momentum builds around the movement to divest from fossil fuels, it is likely investors will soon to be talking about carbon bubbles and investment strategies to come out on the right side of climate change, especially in new growth markets.

BY Robert Foster

Blog Post

12.10.2014
Culture

What Could Be Lost as Einstein’s Papers Go Online

By empowering everyone to get information unfiltered, it diminishes the role of gatekeepers and intermediaries. But even in our digital age, scholars should visit their subjects’ archives—not just surf their sites.

BY Walter Isaacson

Blog Post

12.10.2014
Trade and Globalization

Women Must Be Partners and Drivers of Climate Change Decision-Making

At COP20, as the global leaders negotiate a United Nations climate convention, we want believe the world deserves gender-responsive climate change solutions that include women at decision-making tables internationally, nationally, and locally when strategies and action plans are developed.

BY Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Blog Post

12.08.2014
Urban Innovation

Transportation as a Bridge to Opportunity for All

To ensure fair access to quality jobs and contracting opportunities, we must first address the reality that investments in transportation often yield good jobs in construction, maintenance, and operations, but those jobs have not always benefited the workers being left behind in the current economy.

BY Anita Hairston

Blog Post

12.02.2014
Europe and Russia

Back to the Future: Debating a Response to the Crisis with Russia

We want to keep the peace with Russia. But we must also contain its territorial ambitions in Europe in order to preserve Europe’s free and democratic future.

BY Nicholas Burns

Blog Post

11.24.2014
Urban Innovation

Prospects for TTIP in 2015: a view from the United States

While the midterm election of 2014 has mercifully reached its conclusion, its impact on complex global issues like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will take many months to unravel.

BY Thomas Duesterberg

Blog Post

11.24.2014
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