Category: Digital Economy
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Challenges of Quantum Computers for the Current State of International Economic Systems
Quantum computing is no longer a distant scientific curiosity—it is becoming a strategic, geopolitical, and economic force that could reorder global hierarchies. While the technology remains in its early commercial phase, its disruptive potential has already begun testing the resilience of international economic systems built on classical computing, secure communication,…
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Big AI vs Small AI: The New Frontier of Global Development
The World Bank President Ajay Banga’s distinction between Big AI and Small AI is emerging as one of the most important intellectual frameworks for understanding how artificial intelligence will reshape global development, labour markets, and economic resilience over the coming decade. This is not merely a technological categorisation—it is a…
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The Age Beyond Limits: How Humanoid Robots and Autonomous Systems Redefine the Global Economy
Human civilisation has always grown by expanding the productivity of each individual. From the plough to the steam engine, from electricity to computers, every great economic leap has followed an expansion in what a single human can produce within a unit of time. Today, we stand at the threshold of…
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Europe’s Economic Bazooka: A New Kind of Power in Global Negotiations
In the long evolution of global economic tools, few instruments represent a sharper shift than the European Union’s emerging “economic bazooka.” Unlike traditional tariff-based measures, this mechanism is designed for a digital, service-driven global economy—one where platforms, data, and cloud infrastructure matter more than shipping containers or commodity flows. The…
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Evolving Dark Offices: When Workplaces No Longer Need Light
The idea of the dark office—a workplace that functions with little or no human presence—marks a quiet but profound shift in the history of work. Much like the “lights-out factories” of the late twentieth century, dark offices are not about darkness as absence, but about automation as presence. Tasks once…
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Can India Lead the Global AI Race?
The question of whether India can lead the global artificial intelligence race is no longer speculative—it is structural. History shows that technological leadership does not emerge merely from invention, but from the ability to combine talent, capital, policy, and scale into a self-reinforcing system. AI today sits at a similar…
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Productivity Without Jobs: The Paradox of Advanced Manufacturing in Developed Economies
Manufacturing in advanced economies has undergone a profound transformation over the last four decades. Once the backbone of mass employment, it has evolved into a capital-, technology-, and knowledge-intensive sector where output growth is increasingly decoupled from job creation. The experience of developed countries demonstrates a critical paradox: manufacturing productivity…
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Digitalisation as Survival: From Growth Engine to Cost Shield
For much of the past three decades, digitalisation was sold as a story of expansion—faster growth, wider markets, and disruptive innovation. In the early internet era, firms digitised to reach customers; in the cloud and mobile phase, they digitised to scale. Today, the motivation has shifted decisively. Across manufacturing, services,…
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Cracks Are Appearing in OpenAI’s Dominant Façade: A Historical, Critical & Futuristic Outlook
For nearly a decade, OpenAI symbolized the frontier of modern artificial intelligence—an institution that blended scientific ambition, Silicon Valley mystique, and a mission-driven narrative of “AI for all.” Its breakthroughs in large language models, multimodal systems, and safety research placed it at the center of the global AI race. But…
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