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The economy is waiting to hit an iceberg
Oped, Chartchai Parasuk, Published on 20/03/2025
» This is not a scene from the 1997 film Titanic. On the evening of April 14th 1912, a small Canadian fishing boat, skippered by a French-Canadian captain called "Jacques-Chai", approached the Titanic wanting to convey a very important message to Captain Edward Smith. The message was that there was a sea of icebergs, one was particularly big, about 200 miles ahead.
How to stop sea level rise at its source
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2022
» 'Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets to thicken, slowing or even reversing their contribution to sea-level rise."
Hacking the future: Operation Speedboat
Oped, Worsak Kanok-Nukulchai, Published on 18/02/2021
» Speedboat strategy denotes a modern approach to radical innovation in large organisations, reflecting the agility and pace of a "speedboat," in contrast to an "ocean cruise ship," which is clumsy and slow. Most well-established business entities are as bulky as cruise ships. If these cruise ships must sail through the greatest disruptive storms on earth, how can they change course in time to avoid being disrupted?