Productivity gains, even large ones, do not automatically translate into broadly shared prosperity. The Internet productivity boom of 1995–2004 coincided with a dramatic widening of income inequality.

This week, we are going to look at how AI is coming for “your job” and how something called the “J-curve” may shed some light on how this is going to play out.

While the serial novel got its start way back in the 17th century, it did not “get its sea legs” until Victorian era England. In 1836 and 1837, a 24-year-old journalist began publishing a series of related stories called “The Pickwick Papers”.

Our story begins in 1959, when a wealthy Arkansan named Lamar Hunt applied for an NFL expansion franchise in Texas.

While we would not be surprised by anything anymore (other than maybe the Leafs winning back-to-back games), a U.S. invasion of Greenland would probably not have been on our bingo card a year-ago.