globinfo freexchange The former Greek Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis, ended his recent speech on the Future of Capitalism, at the New School, New York, with some interesting remarks. As he said: The world we live in, is increasingly rudderless, in a constant slow burning recession, while at the very same time, the increasing concentration in the IT sector is creating the new technologies that will do that which the Left has failed to do: overthrow Capitalism. It is really very simple. The moment machines pass the Turing test properly, and you pick up the phone and you do not know whether the person you are talking to is a human being or a machine ˙ the moment we are going to have 3D printers operating as public utilities - you can send any blueprint to it and it can print from one pin to a motorcycle, or to a car - the moment that this happens, we have not just a process of Schumpeterian creative destruction, but we have a process where economies of sc...
Thomas Powell, whose research into the Korean War has been exemplary, has just published The Korean War Remembered. It's an academic paper, and a long one, but fascinating.
ReplyDeleteOne gem: Before the war, Harry Truman was the most unpopular president in US history. Talk about wagging the dog!
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MHI5MWSQCP6GGTN9XBFH/full?target=10.1080/08854300.2020.1787009