Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction

Forget WWIII, the future is a delicate dance over mutually assured financial destruction. The New Republic has a great article (Peking Over Our Shoulder | The New Republic) about the issues and the way the game is playing be played.  It looks increasingly like if the US and CHina ever come to blows, it will [...]

A Lack of Innovation?

What if our current economic crisis was not just caused by poorly designed financial markets, but by a lack of growth driving innovation?

what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if outside of a few high-profile areas, the past decade has seen far too few commercial innovations that can transform lives and move the [...]

Punctuated Equilibrium

In evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium is the theory that evolution takes place through extremely small changes over a species history (equilibrium) but that occasionally, extremely significant and localized jumps occur rapidly (say in the span of a few generations).  I think that this is a good model to explain cultural change over the course of [...]