The extreme weather around the world recently has forced us to think seriously about the big issue of global warming. Buildings currently account for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon emissions glob ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
... investors. Given all the disappointments in 2022, the outlook for the new year is quite downbeat. Major corporations are announcing layoffs, and the International Monetary Fund is forecasting that at ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-17
... ect matter. The following constitutes a broad skeleton to the talk: On truth. A new ‘kind’ of ‘truth’ is emerging – a type that straddles the divide between the true and false; quasi-truths bear suffi ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
Technology underpins practically every aspect of our life. It’s the backbone behind how we work, how we connect to friends and family, and how we relax in our free time. But what role does technology ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-16
So what sort of experience is COP27? It was a hustling 2-week meeting. The week 1 negotiation was slow for national delegates, and there was a more delightful moment when the negotiation got extended ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-12
With hindsight, 2022 will be seen as the year when artificial intelligence gained street credibility. The release of ChatGPT by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI garnered great attent ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-12
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今日信報時事評論EJ InsightMark O’Neill2023年01月12日
Expect the unexpected. When China opened door for travel earlier this week, many might have expected the wealthy mainland travellers to flood to other countries for shopping. It has not happened yet. ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-11
According to a survey conducted earlier by the data analysis company Exploding Topics, among over 1,600 American users interviewed, 47.9% of them did not mind their personal data being sold to other c ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-11
Personal privacy protection must have been one of the most newsworthy topics in the information technology industry in 2022. Google has just reached a settlement with 40 states in the United States in ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-10
A specter haunts the way we think about the youth in our city. The specter is a fundamental failure to take their agency seriously. The most obvious means by which this failure manifests, of course, i ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-06
The failure of China’s zero-COVID policy is leading to a reassessment of Chinese power. Until recently, many expected China’s GDP to surpass that of the United States by 2030 or soon thereafter. But n ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-06
One would be forgiven for thinking that the above is a most mundane proposition. After all, it is clearly true that geopolitics is a universal, all-encompassing, and ubiquitous phenomenon. Yet this st ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-05
... ized world. But the last 12 months highlighted one major trend that will shape what happens next, in 2023 and beyond: the decline of Russia. Russian aggression is nothing new. Moscow has been invading ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-05
... tical risk. But with public and private debt having risen to record levels during the now-bygone era of ultra-low interest rates, and recession risks high, the global financial system faces a huge str ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-05
... ld economy. That logic drove the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) to begin compiling, and regularly updating, a GBS covering ten countries that together represent more than 60% of world GDP. MGI’s firs ...More
EJ Insight2023-01-04
