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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It’s true of GDP. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.