Global Business Environment

PART I: Technology and AI-Breaching Boundaries

1 Conceptual Framework of Artificial Intelligence

2 The ChatGPT Phenomenon and the Future of Large Language Models

3 The Mindful AI Revolution: Neuroscience Insights for a Human-Centred Future

4 Transhumanism: Transitioning to Humanity 2.0-Humans-Tranhumans-Posthumans

5 Versions of Reality-Augmented, Virtual and Mixed

6 Building Blocks of a Quantum-Ready Future-Blockchain, 5G and Quantum Computing

7 Additive Manufacturing: Reshaping the Production Landscape

PART II: Geopolitics-The Earth and Beyond

8 The World's Growing Appetite for "Chips"

9 The Global Battle for Rare Earths

10 Space-he Final Frontier

11 The Conflict Shaping the Biggest Realignment of Global Powers Since WW II

12 China's Slowing Momentum after Decades of a Spectacular Rise?

13 Regional Blocs, Economic Forums and Security Alliances: The Shifting Landscape of Cooperation

PART III: International Politics-Fractured Mandates and Deepening Divides

14 Progress or Polarisation? Identity Politics and the Future of Democracy

15 Populism: Reshaping the Ends of the Political Spectrum

16 The Final Assault on Democracy? Disinformation and the Future of Open Societies

17 Migration: Worsening Humanitarian Crisis and Deepening Political Divisions

PART IV: Repurposing Economic Thought

18 The Circular Economy in Motion: The Green Approach Driving Resilient and Sustainable Businesses

19 Behavioural Economics: Nudging Us to Rethink Basic Assumptions

20 Emergence of Economic Nationalism in a Globalised World: Balance or Tipping Point?

21 The Rise of the Sharing Economy

22 The Crisis of Late Capitalism: Inequality, Instability and Cultural Shifts

PART V: The Kaleidoscope: Society and Culture in the Age of Machines

23 The Changing Workplace: Identity, Automation and the Search for Meaning

24 The Gender Debate: Full Spectrum of the Human Experience in the Age of AI

25 "Mind the Gap": Building Intergenerational Equity

26 When the World Burns: Billionaires, Bunkers and the Business of Fear

27 Lost Worlds and Woven Fates: Nostalgia, Storytelling and the Human Need to Belong

28 Postmodernism and Existentialism in a Networked and AI-Driven World

PART VI: The End or New Beginnings

29 Climate Change-An Endangered Agenda

30 More Than Numbers: Inequality, Well-being and Our Future

31 GDPR: A Global Influence on Data Privacy

32 Existential Threat-AI and the End Game

33 There's Hope for a Better World