This is one serious ass book.  It will scare the hell out of you … or should.   As best I can tell, it is well-researched, relies on real experts, and is factually accurate.  It’s a page turner.  Credit to friend, salt-of-the-earth AT&T colleague,...

So I’m reading Harari’s latest, Homo Deus, and I come across one of these mind-blowing fun facts.  62 Billionaires own the same wealth as the bottom 50% of the entire world’s population.  Incredulous, I checked.  It’s true.  (Source:  https://www.cadtm.org/spip.php?page=imprimer&id_article=12882#:~:text=The%20poorest%2050%25%20of%20the,of%20the%20richest%2062%20persons....

  Even before David Rubenstein bought the Baltimore Orioles this year, I’ve often extolled the virtues of his Peer to Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV. Of course, buying the Orioles sealed the deal.   In any case, I just finished his interview of David Solomon, the CEO of Goldman...

A friend asked to write on the unexpected 2nd and 3rd order effects of new technologies.  I think the biggies are AI, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.  I decided to start with AI.  Being basically a lazy bastard, I decided to see what ChatGPT would come up with.  The...