CHAPTER 6 Global Mass Society The most important development that accelerated contemporary globalization was the universalization of capitalism when the Cold War ended. Capitalism advanced into the separate economic system led by the Soviet Union, which collapsed by 1991. In the name of "free trade,...
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg has a commentary today titled “AI Phones From Google and Apple Will Erode Trust in Everything” with the subheadline “When anyone can manipulate a photo in seconds, it’ll get harder to believe what we see and hear.” The article by Olson discusses the growing ...
Did you see the story we ran yesterday from The New York Times titled “This Texas Energy Is So Bountiful, They Pay You to Take It Away”? The story says: “Natural gas has traded below zero for much of the year in West Texas, home to the country’s largest oil field, the Permian...