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“an industrial revolution of unmitigated cruelty” powered by machines capable of “reducing the economic value of the routine factory employee to a point at which he is not worth hiring at any price.”**
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Human genome data—at about 2 terabytes per human—is rapidly becoming inexpensive enough ($1,000 per patient within a few years)
Thomas H. Davenport • Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
Talent is rare by institutional decree.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Qualified Blacks at all levels could be found, if high-tech firms wished to find them.22
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
The soaring fortunes of those at the very top may ultimately represent a threat to democratic governance.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
assets—Pepperdine’s study found that companies with the best records for promoting women outperform the competition.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
Tellingly, Jeff Hammerbacher, who worked on Wall Street before leading the data team at Facebook, once said, “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.22 That