The Dam Breaks
By: Popular Information January 12, 2021 Last week, Popular Information contacted 144 corporations and asked if they would continue to support the Republican members of Congress who objected to the certification of the Electoral College vote. We received a trickle of about 15 responses and published the results on Sunday morning. Among those responding, three were […]
2021: The Year of Addressing 3 Key Digital Challenges in a Civilizational Moment
2020 was indubitably a seminal year. Its lasting imprint will be felt for decades to come, having brought to the fore and accelerated, structural trends that were gathering pace over the past 5 years. Consequently, it’s brought on a Civilizational Moment, where open borders are closed and backlash to the freewheeling, loose nature of globalisation […]
More Than Half of UK’s Furloughed Jobs at Risk of Automation – Report
By: The Guardian December 15, 2020 More than half of furloughed jobs in the UK are at the highest risk of automation as the Covid crisis accelerates workplace technology change, driving up redundancies and inequality across the country, according to a report. The two-year commission on workers and technology, chaired by the Labour […]
Why the Path From Public Service to Private Riches Erodes Trust
By: The FT December 14, 2020 From a certain point of view, Doug Band, who started out in Washington as a lowly personal assistant and last week quit the 800-person company he built from scratch, is living proof that America rewards big dreams and hard work. But because Mr Band’s early work was in […]
EU companies left in limbo over US data transfers
By: The FT September 13, 2020 Some of Europe’s largest companies have called for guidance on how they should transfer data to the US, after facing legal challenges from activists. Meal delivery group Just Eat Takeaway, Danske Bank and the University of Luxembourg all said they wanted clarification from regulators after Noyb, a […]
Pope Francis Urges Followers to Pray That AI and Robots ‘Always Serve Mankind’
By: The Verge November 11, 2020 Pope Francis has asked believers around the world to pray that robots and artificial intelligence “always serve mankind.” The message is one of the pope’s monthly prayer intentions — regular missives shared on YouTube that are intended to help Catholics “deepen their daily prayer” by focusing on particular topics […]
The Great Uncoupling: One Supply Chain for China, One for Everywhere Else
By: FT October 6, 2020 Earlier this year, four dozen lawyers, accountants and bankers from all over Latin America piled into a conference room in an office tower on Miami Waterfront. They listened spellbound as Nicholas Chen, an energetic lawyer who had come all the way from Taiwan, told them about an exodus of manufacturing from […]
San Francisco Voters Approve New Taxes for Wealthy CEOs and Tech Companies
By: The Guardian November 5, 2020 In an effort to address economic disparity laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved several tax measures targeting property owners and big businesses with CEOs paid far higher than their average workers. Under the new law, any company whose top executive earns 100 times more […]
Robots on the Rise as Americans Experience Record Job Losses Amid Pandemic
By: The Guardian November 27, 2020 They can check you in and deliver orange juice to your hotel room, answer your questions about a missing package, whip up sushi and pack up thousands of subscription boxes. And, perhaps most importantly, they are completely immune to Covid-19. While people have had a hard time in […]