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COVID19 PUSHES A RELUCTANT JAPAN TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Visitors often marvel at how the old and new so readily co-exist in Japan. The land of futuristic infrastructure, architectural marvels and robotic pets is also one where fax machines…

WTF IS HAPPENING IN ARMENIA?

I can’t believe I am writing yet another article about the tragedies happening in my beloved countries. You see, I have two identities, two nationalities, two home countries; I call…

A PHOENIX LIKE SITUATION

In mythology the phoenix is a bird that has the ability to immolate itself when it is close to dying, from the fire an egg is spawned and with the…

Climate Change In The Age Of Post-Drought

THE WEST WILL BLEED — FOR ITS VAGUE VIEW ON CHINA’S BUSINESS POWER

WITH TEN PIECES OF ADVICE TO DO BUSINESS IN THE NEW CHINA When Tim Cook, boss of Apple, was in Beijing and wanted to pay his Starbucks coffee with Apple Pay,…

You are a Dog

In the early years of the Internet the New Yorker published a cartoon with two dogs in front of a computer. ‘On the Internet nobody knows you are a dog’,…

Governance should be all about being future oriented. A substantial amount of future-literacy is helpful then, though generally speaking this competence is not very institutionalized in politics and government. As…