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European Dynamism

Why Europe Is Already Winning the AI Century

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Henrick Johansson is sixty-five years old, lives in a forty-seven-square-metre apartment in Stockholm, and believes Europe has already won the AI century. He would like to explain why.In fourteen chapters and five appendices, Compliant Capital's founding partner makes the case that the contemporary technology economy has been measuring dynamism on the wrong axis. The Americans measure it in rate ... Read more

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Henrick Johansson is sixty-five years old, lives in a forty-seven-square-metre apartment in Stockholm, and believes Europe has already won the AI century. He would like to explain why.In fourteen chapters and five appendices, Compliant Capital's founding partner makes the case that the contemporary technology economy has been measuring dynamism on the wrong axis. The Americans measure it in rate
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONLook out for Tim's next book, The Data Detective*.*A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy.**Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what ... Read more

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Dream States

Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism

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Swiss Made

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Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons ... Read more

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Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons
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No discussion on mobility can exclude the broader context – the cities, the countryside, the local and national economic, political and social environments, as well as, of course, the technological progress that is being made in industries that are associated with this revolution. The urban environments which we call home and that are part of our identities will evolve. Through the air quality we ... Read more

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Speed Limits

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By the time you read this book, the art world may have witnessed the sale of its first $500 million painting. Whilst for some people money is anathema to art this is clearly a wealthy international industry, and a market with its own conventions and pressures.Drawing on the vast experience of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, The Art Business exposes the realities of the commercial trade in fine art and ... Read more

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Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left in its wake? How would a museum go about curating ... Read more

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