By Audrey Watters ~ Transcript of a talk given at Scratch AMS 2015 When I first started to think about what I wanted to say here today, I thought I’d talk about innovation and how confused if not backwards the… Read More ›
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To Replace or Respect: Futurology as if People Mattered
a review of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (W.W. Norton, 2014) by Frank Pasquale ~ Business futurism is a grim discipline. Workers must either adapt to… Read More ›
Warding Off General Ludd: The Absurdity of “The Luddite Awards”
By Zachary Loeb ~ Of all the dangers looming over humanity no threat is greater than that posed by the Luddites. If the previous sentence seems absurdly hyperbolic, know that it only seems that way because it is, in fact,… Read More ›
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