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The Innovation Revolution

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In Project Syndicate’s exclusive series The Innovation Revolution, the world’s leading experts in architecture, industrial design, medical research, economics, and other fields examine the causes and consequences of breakthrough innovations in communications, transport, energy (and energy storage), biotechnology, and similarly crucial sectors.

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  1. Keep the Internet Tax-Free
    surfing the web Ross G. Strachan/Flickr

    Keep the Internet Tax-Free

    Dec 8, 2014 Robert D. Atkinson & Ben Miller uses a recently proposed Hungarian law to show why taxing digital technology is bad for growth.

  2. Ebola and Innovation
    Ebola Treatment Clinic Lin Xiaowei/ZumaPress

    Ebola and Innovation

    Dec 5, 2014 Muhammad Hamid Zaman sees two crucial lessons to be learned from the current outbreak.

  3. The Drag on E-Cigarettes
    E-cigarettes MomentiMedia/Flickr

    The Drag on E-Cigarettes

    Nov 24, 2014 Jacques Le Houezec wants governments and health authorities to recognize the lifesaving potential of e-cigarettes.

  4. The Urban Village
    View of Chicago Brian Koprowski/Flickr

    The Urban Village

    Nov 4, 2014 Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel explore the potential of computational social science to show why cities thrive.

  5. Who Killed the Nokia Phone?
    Who killed the nokia phone Brian Rasic/ZumaPress

    Who Killed the Nokia Phone?

    Oct 14, 2014 Pekka Nykänen & Merina Salminen find essential lessons in the end of one of Europe's biggest technology success stories.

  6. Mine Your Digital Business
    Mine your own business Mark Ahlness/Flickr

    Mine Your Digital Business

    Oct 9, 2014 Nathan Eagle wants Internet users to be able to sell the passive data that they generate.

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    Ukraine Is Far From Doomed

    Tatyana Deryugina & Anastassia Fedyk

    When comparing Ukraine’s situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible. But it will require the West, and the US in particular, to put aside domestic political squabbles and muster the political will to provide Ukraine with consistent and robust military and financial assistance.

     compare Russia's full-scale invasion to World War II and see reason to hope – as long as aid keeps flowing.
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    The Pandemic Financing Developing Countries Need

    Rachel Glennerster urges multilateral development banks to establish mechanisms that enable at-risk vaccine purchases.
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    The Geopolitics of Africa’s Debt Crisis

    Anne O. Krueger urges developed countries to back efforts by the IMF and the World Bank to promote growth-enhancing reforms.
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    Why the EU’s New Migration Pact Matters

    Ana Palacio applauds the pragmatic coalition-building, especially by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, that enabled the deal.
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    AI Needs UN Oversight

    Peter G. Kirchschläger calls for the creation of a watchdog – similar to the IAEA – that employs a human rights-based approach.
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    The West Is Hastening Its Own Decline

    Brahma Chellaney argues that the unprecedented US and European sanctions against Russia are backfiring.
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    Canceling Palestine

    Slavoj Žižek

    Current debates about Israeli policy are rife with double standards, leading to absurd decisions like Germany’s recent cancellation of a pro-Palestinian gathering. By quashing legitimate speech and assembly, an Israel-aligned establishment risks inciting precisely the kind of anti-Semitism that it wants to prevent.

     worries that the double standards applied on Israel’s behalf will lead to an anti-Semitic backlash.
  8. ackerman2_Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times via Getty Images_preschool Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
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    America’s Childcare Is Unfit for the Postmodern Age

    Bruce Ackerman urges US President Joe Biden to put universal preschool at the center of his re-election campaign.
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    History Already Tells Us the Future of AI

    Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson find policy lessons for the 2020s in the work of the early-nineteenth-century economist David Ricardo.

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