Category: Ethics

DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion ($65 per share). The companies plan to keep separate brands and apps until…

When war drives up energy prices, consumers pay more and oil producers can earn extraordinary profits. Should some of that…

Imagine seven of the world’s most powerful technology companies falling through the sky, desperately holding the edges of a rescue…

We are becoming a society in which algorithms know more about our behavior than we do—and increasingly have the power…

For centuries, people have moved money across borders without banks. Now cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence are giving these old networks…

I distantly remember a story by Earnest Hemingway, I believe, in which he describes the plight of an Alpine farmer…

As discerning readers of my new and largely unnoticed personal mini blog may have noticed I use a lot of…

More than 200 years ago, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein—one of the most enduring cautionary tales in literature. Today, as artificial…