by Aseem Gupta | Feb 27, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
George Orwell’s 1984, originally published as Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, imagines a society in which the government controls not only what people do but also what they remember, believe, and are permitted to regard as true. Set in a future London ruled by an...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 20, 2024 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
On June 23, 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The promise was simple, emotional, and politically explosive: take back control. Control of borders.Control of laws.Control of money.Control of trade. For many Leave voters, Brexit was never just an economic...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 11, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Douglas Adams begins The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with a remarkably ordinary problem: a man is about to lose his house because the local council wants to build a road. Within hours, the entire Earth is destroyed for essentially the same reason. What...
by Aseem Gupta | Feb 5, 2024 | Business, Innovation & Industry
For a long time, Disney did not feel like a company. It felt like a childhood memory machine. A Disney film was not just another movie on the release calendar. It was an event. A Disney character was not just a piece of intellectual property. It was a companion. A...
