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The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
we turn to a pair of MIT economists, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who in their influential 2011 book, Race Against the Machine, provide a compelling case that among various forces at play, it’s the rise of digital technology in particular that’s transforming our labor markets in unexpected ways. “We are in the early throes of a Great Restru
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Post-Labor Economics
Lecture 1
"BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER, SAFER"
This is the first lecture on PLE. In this first part, we focus on the how/why that human labor will go away.
The principle of "better, faster, cheaper, safer" demonstrat... See more
David Shapiro ⏩x.comDeep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben • 3 highlights
amazon.com
To be sure, it is those entrepreneurs—people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell in the personal computer era; Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg in the web era—who saw that this world driven by a passion for discovery and sharing could become the cradle of a new economy.
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
As we enter a period of rapid change driven by advances in AI, we need to track changes in the economy.
That means we should invest more in government statistics, not less.
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Erik Brynjolfssonx.comSo Just Who Are These People?
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Om Malik blog post : "I wonder if this culture of participation was helping build businesses on our collective backs. If we tag, bookmark, or share and help del.icio.us or Technorati or Yahoo become better commerical entities, aren't we commoditizing our most valuable asset: time? We become the outsourced workforce, though it is still unclear what ... See more