Marco Annunziata

Marco Annunziata is Co-Founder of Annunziata + Desai Advisors, a consultancy on economics, innovation and business strategy, and Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University. He is a TED speaker, author of The Economics of the Financial Crisis, and co-host of the M4Edge tech podcast.

Generative AI: Creativity, productivity and jobs

Generative AI will inevitably be used as a powerful manipulation tool. The evidence is already piling in, even more shocking than I would have expected at this early stage. Take Matt Taibbi, the investigative journalist most recently famous…

China’s Three-Body Problem

The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in San Francisco has focused attention on the fraught relationship between the two superpowers – and on China’s three-body problem. China spearheads an open challenge to the Western view of the world and to the…

Three early lessons from the latest bout of financial markets turmoil: banks and beyond

Today a bank can suddenly go bust having invested most of its money in the safest financial assets on the planet. Let that sink in for a moment. It is a delicate juncture in financial markets. I think the financial system is in a much more…

We follow the science, then politics intrudes

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, “follow the science!” has been repeated like a mantra. Yet we have followed science at a safe distance at best. Europe’s AstraZeneca vaccine saga is the latest example. Some people suffered blood clots…

Seven lessons and one resolution for 2021

The year 2020 has tried to teach us many lessons (though we took away some of the wrong ones); here are the seven that stuck with me, and the one resolution they suggest for 2021. 1. Technology: Give it a Go – Fighting a virus is no game…

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