Globalization and soccer in China, the rise of RegTech and other stories you may have missed this week

World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
2 min readJun 26, 2017
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Adrian Monck, Head of Public and Social Engagement, Member of the Managing Board, World Economic Forum Geneva

This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2017

How to check globalization’s status? Look at China’s spending on football.

A national capital bans parking spaces. Banning cars may be next for Oslo.

Financial inclusion and simpler regulations: the rise of RegTech.

3D, all-senses computing. Augmented reality and the future of work.

Studying universal basic incomes: winners, losers, and broader solutions.

Artifical Intelligence at sea. Crewless, robot ships are coming.

A view from China on innovation — and the factors that drive it.

Blockchain, central banks and negative interest rates. A long read on what Blockchain can do for the Fed and its fellows.

People of the near future. Meet the transhumanists and cyborg artists working on new humans.

The bot-ty politic. How propaganda is automated online.

The stories we tell impact the business cycle. Narrative economics aims to learn from them.

A trillion dollars worth of goods passes through Chicago every year. America’s failing infrastructure means it gets stuck there.

Originally published at www.weforum.org.

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