What Would Eli Ginzberg Think of MAGAnomics?

Mike Magee “The Monetarization of Medical Care.” It had appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine 13 years earlier, on May 3, 1984, and was written by a Columbia University economics professor named Eli Ginzberg. At the time I first read it, doctors were in an upheaval in Massachusetts. Managed Care and Health […]

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“China Shock 2.0”: China Goes “Democratic” on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Mike Magee Last week, following a visit to the White House, Jensen Huang instigated a wholesale reversal of policy from Trump who was blocking Nvidia sales of its H20 chip to China. What did Jensen say? We can only guess of course. But he likely shared the results of a proprietary report from noted […]

“Everybody’s Job Will Be Different Going Forward.”

Mike Magee In a speech to the American Philosophical Society in January, 1946, J. Robert Oppenheimer said, “We have made a thing …that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world…We have raised again the question of whether science is good for man, of whether it is good to learn about the world, […]

The Texas Flood Disaster – Not “An Act of God.”

Mike Magee In the wake of last week’s human tragedy in Texas, it would be easy (and appropriate) to focus on the role played by Trump’s reckless recent dismantling of FEMA and related federal agencies. But to do so would be to accept that the event was an anomaly, or as Trump labeled it on […]