Nathan Gardels
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Converging shifts in the Middle East erupt in the Israeli-Hamas war.
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Curbing inequality will depend on sharing the new wealth and upskilling labor to co-work with intelligent machines.
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Philosopher John Gray envisions a new Middle Ages where plural jurisdictions find a modus vivendi among clashing conceptions of the good life.
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The interconnected lineage of life from primordial times to the present.
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Both centralized giants and distributed tribes need checks and balances in the coming wave of innovation.
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What follows after rupture is the passage to something new.
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The long march to a world order shaped by the Global South.
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It has invited the encirclement the Middle Kingdom sought to avoid.
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A planetary “community of fate” can only be forged through shared responses to common challenges.
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Governing a technology that could shatter societies.
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Its success at reducing poverty appeals to the Global South.
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Cultivating the “third space” where nature, technology and human autonomy meet.
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The digital media ecosystem disempowers the public sphere.
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