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technological un-enjoyment
What will our new economic order look like in ten years? At this point, it appears there will be more un-voluntary leisure time, and some steeply progressive income taxes that a shrinking workforce will be burdened with to support the … Continue reading
cyclical or structural?
Technological unemployment… Is our current unemployment malaise of cyclical or structural nature? According to Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz the answer is more stimulus, more government printed money washing through the economy as if at a luxury spa where we … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew McAfee author, Andrew McAfee MIT, Erik Brynjolfsson, GEA farm technology, Jeff Burnstein robotics, Joseph Stiglitz, Kiva robotics, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Slavoj Zizek, steve kroft, technological unemployment, thomas friedman, thomas friedman new york times
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cracks in the brick: is the foundation crumbling
The math is just not going to add up. The return by any sensible metric of an E-Bay, Amazon, Apple, Cisco compared to a General Electric, Walmart, Target etc. is a no-contest, no brain comparison. The smart money is going … Continue reading
Over the fiscal cliff and into the abyss
it seems like a mocking story in a way; the insecurity of the public sector when they have to get out from under their mother’s skirt and make their way in the real world all by their lonesome, and in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Curry Globe and Mail, David Autour, Francois Legault counselling program, Frank Levy, IBM Watson, Jim Clifton Gallup, John Maynard Keynes, Josef Koudelka, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ray Caesar, Tadeusz Kantor, technological unemployment, Tony Clement Treasury Board, Warren Buffett GEICO
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hotel player piano
A largely automated hotel, a luggage storing robot, and automatic check in desk with self-service touch screens. The future is here and its getting restless. Our love hate relationship with technology probably goes back to the Platonic idea of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McDonald Touchscreen kiosks, Michael Ferguson technological unemployment, New York Yotel, Paul Krugman, steve easterbrook, technological unemployment, Thorstein Veblen, Yobot New York Yotel
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but can it mix a martini?
Sometimes the arc of change is like pulling a cart through knee deep molasses on a cold January morning. There are so many structural constraints in place, so many vested interests, so much anxiety over potential changes and add to … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew McAfee author, Einstein theory of relativity, IBM Watson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margaret Wente, Michael Ferguson, Michael Ferguson technological unemployment, Naval Research Laboratory, Pangea3, technological unemployment, tyler cowen author, U.S. Navy LASR, U.S. Navy robotics facility
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