Innholdsfortegnelse for 11/12/2021 i Newsweek

1965 “Dapper, relaxed Joe Wilson, president of Xerox Corp., is one executive who can say he is literally working up a storm,” Newsweek said. He “plans to turn his bumptious $385 million a year Xerox Corp. into a $2 billion a year behemoth by 1975.” Now a Fortune 500 company, Xerox has evolved by driving innovation into the 3D-printing industry. The company also has expanded its environmental impact with its recently published 2021 Global Corporate Social Responsibility Report, which outlines its goals and commitment to producing more eco-friendly procedures and technologies. 1976 “The chance to boogie again is appealing to the Beautiful People, the bourgeoisie and the blue-collar worker alike,” Newsweek wrote at the height of the disco era. This year, Netflix released the series Halston about the designer whose…

“Don’t be that afraid, you’re not going to die now.”—BRAZILIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER CAETANO VELOSO, 79, ON THE ADVICE HE'D GIVE HIS 18-YEAR-OLD SELF “MY DAYS ARE COMPLETELY MICROMANAGED TO THE MINUTE.”—KIM KARDASHIAN “When you see billionaires being able to go space and back for hobby and fun—in a society worried about floods on a periodic basis—that’s a problem.”—ECONOMIST DARRICK HAMILTON “Do you want Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Ron DeSantis and our ex-fearless leader deciding the fate of the American experiment?”—BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “WHAT I WOULD LIKE IS TO JUST LEAD A PEACEFUL LIFE IN MY NEW ENVIRONMENT.”—Japan’s Princess Mako on marrying a commoner, renouncing her title and moving to New York City “Wild $T1mes!”—ELON MUSK ON TESLA INC. BEING VALUED AT OVER $1 TRILLION “MY FATHER WAS THE CHEAPEST PERSON. ONE…

Henry A. Kissinger Eric Schmidt Daniel Huttenlocher You’re a dream team. How did you find each other and decide to work on this topic? ERIC SCHMIDT: Writing this book together has been a pleasure—and a welcome source of community during the pandemic. When Henry and I met a decade ago or so, the first thing he said to me was: “The only problem I have with Google is that I think that you’re going to destroy the world.” I thought, “Well, that’s a challenge from Henry Kissinger!” After a few years, alongside Dan, our conversations became this book. HENRY KISSINGER: We started having regular conversations after Eric introduced me to AI. We were at a conference. AI was on the agenda. I almost skipped the session, but he stopped me;…

PUERTO RICO HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY HURRICANES, earthquakes and political turmoil in recent years. But the tiny island has gained a badge of honor that may surprise some: it’s the most vaccinated place in America. The U.S. territory has fully vaccinated more than 2.3 million residents, amounting to just over 73 percent of its population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The island also has among the lowest COVID-19 infection rates in the U.S. While some people across the U.S. mainland continue to resist vaccine mandates, Puerto Rico successfully vaccinated a majority of its residents by “putting science before politics,” Daniel Colón-Ramos, a Yale University professor who heads the coalition of scientists advising Puerto Rico’s government on the coronavirus pandemic, tells Newsweek. “Social distancing, use of…

GUITARIST BRIAN MAY CAN STILL REMEMBER the moment when he first realized his band were on their way. It happened in 1973 when Queen played at London’s Imperial College, where he’d been a student and had been on the school’s entertainment committee. “We booked Jimi Hendrix to play in the Great Hall for 1,000 pounds,” he says “And then came the day when we played that hall. I don’t think we were paid as much as 1,000 pounds, but it was our gig, it was full, and we went on. And for the first time, the audience knew every song. That was a big thrill, an amazing rush of energy and belief.” Fifty years since the original Queen lineup of May, drummer Roger Taylor, bassist John Deacon and singer Freddie…

RECENT HISTORY IS PUNCTUATED with a lot of not-so-great economic “greats” from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. Now we have a new one: When historians look back on the decisions made beginning in March 2020 and still going strong, this period will be remembered as the “Great Consolidation”—the acceleration of a historic wealth transfer and power concentration out of the hands of the middle class and into those with political power and connections. The “connected” form a powerful bloc comprised of big government, big business and big special interests. And though their monikers label them “big,” they are comprised of relatively small elites. And they are seeking to use their power to benefit themselves at your expense. Prior to COVID, more than 30 million small businesses accounted for…

In ways large and small, artificial intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous. Search engines, maps and social media are analyzing our histories to make predictions and tailor relevant responses. Text and email applications, which know the words and phrases we use most often, are trying to complete our sentences. AI programs like AlphaGo and AlphaZero are winning games—in their cases, Go and chess—by playing themselves and, in so doing, developing their own not-quite-human concepts of the games. At MIT, an AI program discovered a new antibiotic by identifying patterns in data that humans did not—or possibly never could. Struck by these and other breakthroughs, the all-star team of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Schmidt Futures co-founder and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Dean Daniel…