The Knowledge Economy
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The age of brilliant machines seems to reward a few traits.
Computers are increasingly going to be able to perform important parts of even mostly cognitive jobs
David Brooks | New York Times
NYTimes
Our generation will have more power to improve (or destroy) the world than any before, relying on fewer people and more technology.
Something very, very big happened over the last decade. It is being felt in every job, factory and school. We are at the start of the Second Machine Age.
Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times
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His entire body and identity have become the property of a collective human-machine network.
Robots with enhanced “senses,” dexterity, and intelligence
Hawking’s persona, his disability, and his embodied network thus becomes a window on our machines, the nature of work, and even our representation of scientific heroes.
In fact, it’s precisely because of his disability that we get to see how all scientists work … and how the entire world will work one day.
No voice, no other sounds, no facial expressions. His sole means of communicating is through infrared connection to his computer.
HÉLÈNE MIALET | Wired Magazine
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McKinsey
James Manyika, Michael Chui, Jacques Bughin, Richard Dobbs, Peter Bisson, and Alex Marrs | McKinsey Global Institute
New technologies are unfolding that have the potential to disrupt the status quo, alter the way people live and work, and rearrange value pools.
McKinsey Global Institute identifies 12 technologies that could drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years, including:
Advanced robotics
Automation of Knowledge Work
Internet of Things
3D Printing
Robots | Jobs | Economy
Richard Mahoney, the director of the robotics program at SRI International discusses the long-term ramifications of Robotics for the economy and the job market.
Nancy Lin|Business Reinvention | Voice of America
Voice of America
"... increased understanding will require increased contact ...."
A More Attainable Peace ...
Internet.org
Thinking Machines Connect the World
It's More than Moore's Law
What allowed robots to go from blind, dumb, immobile automatons to fully autonomous entities able to operate in unstructured environments like the streets of a city....
Share Innovation ... Creativity ... Ideas
Haomiao Huang | ARS Technica
Suddenly, the robotic future doesn't look so far off.
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The Future of the World Economy is a Knowledge Economy
Watch the Video as Mark Zuckerberg explains what Facebook and their partners are doing to make Internet access available to the two thirds of the world not yet connected.
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Mark Zuckerberg | Internet.org
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Work and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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A Strategy for Keeping the Robots at Bay
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Pew Survey: Technology and the Future
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