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The Future of the Professions: An Overview of Susskind and Susskind’s Book on How Technology is Altering the Employment Landscape
The Future of the Professions is a book authored by Daniel Susskind and Richard Susskind, released in 2015 by the Oxford University Press. The PDF attachment contains more information about the professional background of Richard Susskind. The book examines the ways in...
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Art as Collateral: Making an Art Investment More Profitable
Investing in art as an asset is highly illiquid, can be high-risk, is at the mercy of trends and changes in public opinion, is largely unregulated, and can attract high transaction costs. One positive factor for art investment that is becoming more popular in recent...
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Homo Deus: Exploring the Future of Humankind and Artificial Intelligence
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow is a book by Professor Yuval Noah Harari. You can learn more about the author in the embedded short video. Following on from his earlier tome Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus explores human history, evolution and...
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Entire Townley Art Collection Sold Via WeChat for Cryptocurrency
The contemporary British artist Lincoln Townley has made history by selling an entire artwork collection via social media platform WeChat, taking payment in cryptocurrency. The contemporary artist regularly embraces the use of social media platforms to promote and...
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Life 3.0: The Future According to Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark, a Swedish-American cosmologist, released a book in 2017 called Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The book explores the impact of AI on the future of human life on Earth, looking at the possible implications for society (both...
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Inheritance and Estate Tax Planning: Art and Other Assets
Inheritance tax in the UK is reaching record levels, with an expected £900 million increase expected to be collected by the government over the next five years. If you are unsure what inheritance tax is, you can learn more about this and who must pay it via the PDF...
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Investing in Art: A Growing Asset Class
Art as an asset class is enjoying a boom in popularity at present, with many investors choosing to diversify their portfolios by investing in a tangible piece of art (or two). It’s no wonder investors are keen to jump on the art bandwagon – over the past ten years,...
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The Implications of Modern AI: Discussing Yuval Noah Harari
The Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari first sparked the interest of the public with his globally best-selling book Sapiens, a history of humanity originally written in Hebrew and translated into English in 2014. The book explores human endeavour throughout history,...
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The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Explained
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, also known simply as ‘FATCA’, is a United States law requiring all US citizens both internally and overseas to file reports annually regarding any foreign financial assets and account holdings. The Act was endorsed as part of...
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Managing an Art Collection: Art Held on Trust
Art has long been seen as a good investment and a way to diversify a stock portfolio. In recent years there has been much information in the media about how art investment is booming. However, those considering entering into art as an investment should be aware that...
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