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Fifty years ago, in 1976, life expectancy in the US was 72 years, vs. 78 today. American families typically had one car and one TV. Houses were smaller, nutrition was worse, we polluted like hell and there was no internet. We spent much less time with our screens and more time with each other.
Today, it’s easy to see how many things have gotten better, but it’s just as...
We like to think of the big guys at the top getting fat and lazy. The story of Netflix upending Blockbuster is so appealing because it plays to those biases. It’s reassuring to believe that people get disrupted by not paying attention and making poor decisions because that means that we can avoid their fate with a modicum of awareness and intelligence.
Yet the far more...
In thinking about social justice, the philosopher John Rawls proposed a thought experiment known as the veil of ignorance. What kind of society would you design if you didn’t know what position you’d occupy in the social order—rich or poor, powerful or powerless, advantaged or marginalized? Rawls was focused on justice, not management, but the veil of ignorance offers a...
In November 1989, two watershed events changed the course of world history. The fall of the Berlin Wall would end the Cold War and open up markets across the world. That very same month, Tim Berners-Lee would create the World Wide Web and usher in a new technological era of networked computing.
It seemed, as Francis Fukuyama famously wrote, like the end of history. The...