Toon defines what exactly 'intelligence' means in respect to AI: how that intelligence is already shaping our world, and how we can use it to think about ourselves.
Dependency on international supply chains and its geo-political fall-out, from the optimism of an expanding universe in the 1990s to the uneasy present.
The vast Byzantine walls are a powerful image for the conflict between history and the present that squeezes modern Turkey. Structured around encounters with people during his walks, this is... read more
Stevenson was once the youngest trader in the city and Citibank's most profitable, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars a day. Then he gave it up. A remarkable memoir - funny, excoriating an... read more
How, whether made on tally sticks or via electronic portal, systems of debt and credit have been a driving force in the development of states from Pisa in the C12th to the Bolshevik Revoluti... read more