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UBI 101: Foundations: Work, Value and Basic Income

What would you do if a modest check arrived every month for the rest of your life, whether or not you showed up for work? Most people answer quickly and with confidence, and the…

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SYS 101: Foundations: Systems Thinking

In 1902 the city of Hanoi paid a bounty for every rat tail handed in, and before long people were spotting tailless rats in the streets, alive, well and breeding. Nobody in that…

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REV 101: Foundations: Revolutions

In May 1791 Maximilien Robespierre stood before France's National Assembly and asked it to abolish the death penalty, calling it unjust and useless. Three years later he was a l…

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AIL 101: Foundations: Living With AI

Which would you trust more: a friend who sometimes says "I don't know," or one who answers every question instantly, in polished sentences, with total confidence, and is quietly…

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INFO 101: Foundations: Information Hygiene

Which is easier to fake today, a photograph or a video call with your boss? Neither is hard anymore. A finance worker in Hong Kong learned that after wiring about $25 million to…

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DWE 101: Foundations: Disagreement Without Enemies

Try a small experiment. Pick the political view you find most baffling, then write it down so well that someone who holds it would ask to borrow your wording. Most people cannot…

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CORP 101: Foundations: Corporations and the Commons

In 2017 a river in New Zealand became a legal person, with guardians who can speak for it in court. That sounds strange until you remember that the company that made your phone …

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FUT 101: Foundations: Building the Better Future

Every Thursday at noon, a row of farmers in black smocks sits outside a cathedral door in Valencia and settles quarrels over irrigation water. There are no lawyers, no written b…

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ATTN 101: Foundations: Attention

Look up from this page for a moment and count how many things are asking for your eyes: a screen, a blinking light, a sound from the next room. Each one is cheap to produce and …

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CORR 201: Foundations: Anatomy of Corruption

Should the railroads try to abolish the commission created to police them? No, their lawyer advised in 1892: the commission could be made "of great use to the railroads," becaus…

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