Book Review: Wind, J., (2025), Creativity in the Age of AI, De Gruyter
Over 70 years ago, Peter Drucker wrote: “Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation. These produce newness. All other functions are costs”. This is exactly what the present book addresses. While the major focus of the book is on creativity (i.e., innovation), supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is written by Dr. Jerry Wind [1] , one of the world’s leading marketing experts (The Lauder Professor of Marketing, Emeritus, at Wharton School). While many
Nov 138 min read
Book Review: Clegg, N., (2025), How to Save the Internet, Bodley Head/Penguin
Until January 2025, the author, Nick Clegg, was a senior officer at Meta for seven years. Before that, he was Deputy Prime Minister in the UK and Chairman of the UK’s Liberal Party. Mr. Clegg focuses on generative AI. As generative AI is seen to reshape everything from communication to geopolitics, the book raises a major dilemma: Will open , democratic values shape the future, or will closed authoritarian models win? The global internet, traditionally open, may be at risk o
Oct 205 min read
Book Review: Lee, K.-F., (2018), AI Superpowers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
This book focuses on China versus the US in the race to take the lead in AI. Why do the Chinese seem to be doing so well? And which particular strengths might Silicon Valley have to play on? Few, if anyone, seem to be as well qualified to address these issues as author Dr. Kai-Fu Lee. As of present, he is Chairman/CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading technology-focused investment firm focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech firms. Before this, Dr. Le
Oct 147 min read
Book Review: Guenther, G., (2024), The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It, Oxford University Press
This book is about how various stakeholder groups, primarily in the US, fight the efforts to limit or even abandon the burning of fossil fuels. While there is clearly an increase in our general understanding of the CO 2 emission problem, and global warming and climate changes stemming from such emissions, there still seems to be relatively little focus on this fundamental issue. For instance, according to researchers at Yale University, around 69% of Americans never discuss
Oct 145 min read
McKibbon, B., (2025), Here Comes the Sun, W.W. Norton
Bill McKibbon is one of the most high profiled critics of our world’s climate degeneration, and has written more than 20 books on the topic, including his ground breaking The End of Nature , perhaps the first book that set out the problem of excessive CO 2 emissions/global warming/climate change. In this book, he seems to see a path forward, however. Much of this involves the rapid advances in technologies that deal with climate-related products. There may be a shift from bu
Oct 145 min read
Book Review: Steyer, T., (2024), Cheaper, Faster, Better, Spiegel & Grau
Tom Steyer, a former corporate investor, has written a persuasive book about the climate crisis. He points out that world pollution is worse than ever before, with probably more dysfunctional developments to come. Steyer blames the oil and gas industry for not doing more to halt this. Yet as an eternal optimist, he highlights many current, positive developments for combatting emissions, pollution and climate temperature growth, mostly thanks to technological advances. To re
Oct 146 min read
Book Review: Binder, J., & Braun, M., (2024), The Circular Business Revolution, Pearson
These days, we are seeing a clear shift from a so-called linear economy to a circular one and are increasingly focusing on regeneration...
Oct 76 min read
