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July 25, 2025
How Does Semiconductor Trade Work?
Key Points How Does Semiconductor Trade Work? How is it that South Korea—one of the world’s most important makers of the chips critical for goods from cars to computers—imports more semiconductors from the United States than it exports? Semiconductor supply chains are immensely complex. Some of the trade dynamics, like America’s unexpected surplus in chip…
August 26, 2024
Bring Digital Twins Back to Earth
Abstract We reflect on the development of digital twins of the Earth, which we associate with a reductionist view of nature as a machine. The projects of digital twins deviate from contemporary scientific paradigms in the treatment of complexity and uncertainty, and does not engage with critical and interpretative social sciences. We contest the utility…