The New Fire: Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, and a Transformed World

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Technological, geopolitical, and capital transformation are interconnected, with unprecedented impacts on a globally connected, directly entangled economic and geopolitical world. Choices are simultaneously investment decisions, national security decisions, and civilizational bets on which technological architecture will define the next century.

Understanding them requires insightful economic, strategic, and institutional thinking. More than ever, it requires intellectual courage and patience with complexity.

Predictions and Nonsense

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Predictions usually end up being nonsense. We simply draw a trajectory from what we know today. But innovation is a discontinuity. Things are unpredictable because innovation does not come from consensus thinking. It comes from small groups and individuals with a spark of entrepreneurship, intelligence, and vision.
One of the fundamental tenets of predicting technology is that most forecasters get things spectacularly wrong.

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Life Sciences: The Real, the Hoped, and the Hyped

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Investors have been swept up in the notion of “philanthropic capitalism” and have targeted life-sciences as an avenue that can fulfill this benefit to society. While laudable in concept, this is non-scientific surrealism. “Hoped-for” is not a reliable business model, and most of the unrealistic goals would not be sustainable even if achieved. Real science and innovation are more impactful and substantial and make life sciences even more.