These companies might have survived COVID and a recession, but will they survive 2021?

If our democratic societies decide to go down the same path as China because they’re afraid we “won’t keep up,” then we’re all bound to lose. A race to the bottom—a race to degrade privacy and abuse humanity in favor of profit and strategic dominance—is not one we will win. Nor should we care to.

Dr Richard Hames knows what the future holds, and he sees capitalism as our next hurdle.

This month, we are all tentatively dipping our toes into the New Year, wondering what horrors and highlights might await us in 2019 — the year that served as a setting, you may remember, for Blade Runner, Akira, and Running Man, three of the most iconic future-casting movies ever made and now divergent choose-your-own-dystopia visions of the years ahead (perhaps some more plausible than others).

A Danish bank has released a list of predicted events that could completely change the world as we know it in 2019. Expert analysts at Saxo Bank compiled an ‘Outrageous Predictions’ list detailing how the series of highly unlikely events could affect global finances. Among its cheery predictions for this year is Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn causing the collapse of the pound after becoming Prime Minister, Netflix stock crashing and a solar storm that will take out satellites across the entire western hemisphere.

Intelligent chatbots will continue to be the on-ramp to an enterprise AI strategy for many companies, but other AI use cases will be explored across a wide swath of teams and industries. Here's what to watch for in the AI space in 2019.

Noam Chomsky has warned the Donald Trump-fuelled rally in capital markets is coming to a close and another financial crash is on the horizon. The linguist, philosopher and social critic said the President’s “anti-estabishment” status was a “joke” given his establishment appointees and anti-regulation policies, which have encouraged the stock market. “What's anti-establishment?” he asked, as reported by AlterNet.