by Leroy Hurt | Jan 28, 2014 | Issues.Progress
Via Business Insider: …the relationship between technology and inequality. Like others, he fears that without smart policy, the benefits of new technology will go to a very small part of the population, threatening capitalism itself. Read more:...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 4, 2014 | Issues.Progress
Via Reason: The rise and spread of intelligent machines has led to increasing income inequality and anemic job growth. And this dynamic is likely to be permanent.…The American economy is becoming a “hyper-meritocracy” in which workers will either be big...
by Leroy Hurt | Jan 4, 2014 | Issues.Progress
Via Reason: The rise and spread of intelligent machines has led to increasing income inequality and anemic job growth. And this dynamic is likely to be permanent.…The American economy is becoming a “hyper-meritocracy” in which workers will either be big...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 28, 2013 | Issues.Progress
Via Business Insider: Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey on fish. But the fishermen tie threads around the necks of the cormorants to prevent them from swallowing...
by Leroy Hurt | Dec 28, 2013 | Issues.Progress
Via Business Insider: Fisherman set out with domesticated cormorants, a seabird, on bamboo rafts before sunrise and often in the early evening. These birds prey on fish. But the fishermen tie threads around the necks of the cormorants to prevent them from swallowing...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2013 | Issues.Employment, Issues.Futurism, Issues.Progress
Via Instapundit and Network World: Science fiction writers have long told of great upheaval as machines replace people. Now, so is research firm Gartner. The difference is that Gartner, which provides technology advice to many of the world’s largest companies,...
