A confession from four decades in finance I will begin with an admission that may surprise fellow accountants: I can no longer prepare a complete Profit and Loss Statement and Balance Sheet by hand. Early in my career, the month-end ...
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Switzerland’s Solar Railway Paves Way for Global Expansion
4 October 2026 The world’s first-ever ‘solar railway’, installed in Switzerland last year, has been a success – and it could pave the way for trials in more countries. Next stop: South Korea. Swiss company Sun-Ways lays solar panels in ...
Read More »Light as a Weapon — How AI-Guided Lasers Are Making Defense Cleaner
Of all the technologies converging with artificial intelligence in modern defense, directed energy weapons make the environmental and humanitarian case most vividly. A laser interceptor carries no propellant, no explosive warhead, and leaves no debris field of its own. What ...
Read More »Sustainability is Becoming a Business Issue
15 September 2026 Sustainability is becoming a business issue. Rising energy costs, fragile supply chains and geopolitical disruption are forcing companies to connect sustainability with competitiveness, resilience and growth. In the World Economic Forum’s inaugural Chief Sustainability Officers’ Outlook 2026, ...
Read More »AI and Robotics: The Intelligent Workforce Beyond Earth
The first workforce of the space economy may not be human at all. If the first article in this series asked what infrastructure the emerging space economy requires, this second article asks a more fundamental question: who or what will ...
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