Big Ideas
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.
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Artificial Intelligence and the world’s “Oppenheimer Moment”
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON — The rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence has pushed the world to the brink of a technological revolution that will affect most of the world’s eight billion people. It raises a question of crucial importance: will AI be a force for good or an existential threat?
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Artificial Intelligence and the world’s “Oppenheimer Moment”
By Bernd Debusmann WASHINGTON — The rapid advance of Artificial Intelligence has pushed the world to the brink of a technological revolution that will affect most of the world’s eight billion people. It raises a question of crucial importance: will AI be a force for good or an existential threat?
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Tarot and Talk Therapy
By Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan Most of us are eager for information that reveals a hidden truth, or a solution to a seemingly intractable problem. Talk
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The World is Struggling to Manage its Aging Population
By Bernd Debusmann Call it baby bust and oldster boom — two trends that signal a demographic transformation without precedent in human history. In much
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Goodbye American Democracy, Hello Civil War?
By Bernd Debusmann, “The United States is coming to an end. The question is how.” That is the opening line in a book entitled “The
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Tea and Sympathy and Lies
By Edward M. Cohen In 1953, “Tea and Sympathy” opened on Broadway to raves and controversy, mainly because it tackled a taboo subject, homosexuality. But
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That Quote Has a Ring To It …
By Robert Basler, On June 4,1989, the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, I was in the Reuters office in Beijing, taking notes from our
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A Very Kurt Conversation
By Robert Basler, “Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of
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Long Route to Beirut
By Robert Basler, Although it baffles me when I try to remember why this was, I used to enjoy occasional stints at the Reuters United
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Traveling the World from My Sofa
By Bethany Browning, Sure, Squid Game is exciting, but have you seen those videos where people walk through a city for an hour? The concept
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The Phenomenon of Internet 101-ism
By Nadia Schmidtke, An abundance of information within our reach is a dream that few could’ve imagined half a century ago. But how could we
Here you will discover a showcase of contemporary intellectual articles and subjects that shape overarching themes facing our world and challenge our individual perceptions and preconceived notions. Keep reading to discover topics ranging across all fields of human experiential existence and beyond.