The Risk From AI Is We’re All Handloom Weavers Now: Tom Orlik

Is there a better gauge of a nation’s strength than the vitality of its businesses? Thriving enterprises are a source of wealth and power, drivers of job creation, foundries for new technologies, and a sign that the institutions of education, finance, law and politics are working as they should.

Photographer: Ian Shiver for Bloomberg Businessweek

So, eight years after Donald Trump won the White House with a bleak vision of a US in decline, four years since the Covid-19 pandemic tested national resilience and two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rolled the iron dice , it’s striking that America’s biggest businesses are doing better ...