No longer just in Africa, but in Europe and America too A few years ago Jeff Bezos made a prediction. By 2018 his e-commerce empire, Amazon, would be delivering items by drone. Prime Air has yet to launch. But startups are making progress - mostly in health care, where they are vying to tap into a lucrative, $70bn global market in health-care logistics. As they deal with regulators and investors..
Workers may need ways of organizing themselves The debate about the future of work tends to divide commentators into two camps. The optimistic case is that technology may cause temporary disruption but will ultimately result in economic growth and thus more jobs. Combine harvesters reduced the need for agricultural labourers and personal computers eliminated the typing pool, but the displaced wo..
Blame rising inequality and globalisation If they think their ranking on rich lists is too low, American tycoons fume. German ones kick up a fuss when their looks suspiciously high, explains Heinz Durr. when a magazine called him a billionaire a few years ago, Mr Durr rang the editor to remonstrate. The reporters had double-counted his ownership of Homag, a maker of wood-processing machines that..