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The tensions in the Bay Area are a manifestation of a global trend in which technology is displacing human labor without proportionately raising standards of living for most of the population.
Immigration Reform: What problem are they solving?
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David Frum | The Daily Beast
With technology destroying jobs for humans, adding tens of millions of new immigrants to America will only deepen inequality and poverty.
When they call for immigration reform, what kind of society are they building?
Now's the time to Start Planning
A rational planning process would look something like this ......
We don't know what will happen. We only know what might happen. But it would be foolish not to plan for that.
A new study says that nearly half of all American jobs may soon be performed by robots.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | The Huffington Post
Engineer Arto Nurmikko examines a prototype of a wireless, fully implantable brain-recording device.Fred Field for Brown University
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Robin Young & Jeremy Hobson|Here and Now / NPR
There’s no economic law that says that when technology advances, that everybody necessarily benefits: some people, even a majority of people, could be made worse off. – Erik Brynjolfsson
Knowledge in the Service of Production
Mr. Mokyr's answer is that in Britain ideas interacted vigorously with business interests in "a positive feedback loop that created the greatest sea change in economic history since the advent of culture."
Why did Britain have an industrial revolution first?
The Industrial Enlightenment put knowledge in the service of production, changing the course of history.
TREVOR BUTTERWORTH | The Wall Street Journal
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50% to75% Unemployment?
Are we prepared for a world where 50 to 75 percent of workers are unemployed? It seems like a ridiculous question, but it's something economists and technologists say we seriously need to think about. It's just math...
MAX NISEN | Business Insider
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Crunch the Numbers
EVERYONE AGREES THAT SOME JOBS FOR HUMANS WILL BE LOST TO ROBOTS, AND SOME JOBS FOR HUMANS WILL BE MADE BECAUSE OF OUR 'BOT OVERLORDS. BUT THERE'S A GROWING DEBATE ABOUT THE MATH.
LET'S CRUNCH THE NUMBERS WITH CYBORG HANDS!
Killer Robots Choose Targets All By Themselves
CAMILLE SWEENEY AND JOSH GOSFIELD | Fast Company
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Elizabeth Palermo | TechNews Daily
The report from the United Nations Human Rights Commission suggests that lethal autonomous robots need to be regulated.
Some of these machines — or "lethal autonomous robotics" (LARS), as they are called in the report — can allegedly choose and execute their own targets without human input.
Robots Makes It Too Easy
Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing
Moshe Vardi discusses the possibility that robots will obviate human labor faster than new jobs are created, leaving us with no jobs.
If market economies can't figure out how to equitably distribute the fruits of automation, it might end up with an even bigger, even more hopeless underclass.
"... are we creating many things that are just too easy to do?"
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