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Lisa Levinson

The Tech Trends You Can't Ignore in 2015 - HBR - 0 views

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  • Lisa Levinson on 12 Jan 15
     
    Harvard Business Review's top trends identified by using 5 questions that determine if these are indeed a trend or not. Top trends for 2015 are: Deep learning (machine learning); Smart virtual personal assistants; Uber's monetization of downtime and the offer for those needing employment to work. Uber-like businesses such as grocery delivery, massage services, dry cleaning and laundry, etc. will take off; Oversight for Algorithms - ethics of how algorithms can be used especially when programmers add subjective judgments to algorithms causing false answers; Data privacy - dealing with ongoing breaches. The public does not blame hackers but blames business for not taking measures to combat hackers; Block chain technology is a transactional database that is shared by everyone participating in bitcoin's digital system. Block chain systems may become a universal platform for anything needing a signature or authentication.
  • Lisa Levinson on 12 Jan 15
     
    Harvard Business Review's top trends identified by using 5 questions that determine if these are indeed a trend or not. Top trends for 2015 are: Deep learning (machine learning); Smart virtual personal assistants; Uber's monetization of downtime and the offer for those needing employment to work. Uber-like businesses such as grocery delivery, massage services, dry cleaning and laundry, etc. will take off; Oversight for Algorithms - ethics of how algorithms can be used especially when programmers add subjective judgments to algorithms causing false answers; Data privacy - dealing with ongoing breaches. The public does not blame hackers but blames business for not taking measures to combat hackers; Block chain technology is a transactional database that is shared by everyone participating in bitcoin's digital system. Block chain systems may become a universal platform for anything needing a signature or authentication. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Is Uber redefining the work week? | Olivia Barrow | LinkedIn - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Is the gig economy just an intermediate step in the progression toward a fully automated robotic workforce?
  • my fictitious medical device firm would need to adjust to a team-based deadline model, with incentives to make sure the job gets done on time by somebody, even if the 5-hours-a-week-employee and the 10-hours-a-week-employee both decide not to work this month.
  • With the opt-in work week, everything changes.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Feb 16
     
    very interesting speculation about Uber's eventual move toward self-driven/robotic cars and what this means for automation of work elsewhere.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

2015 Internet Trends Report - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 15 Jun 15
     
    Mary Meeker's annual report on trends. Slides 109-112 on millennials work behavior and expectations and what they value are very interesting--training and development, flexible work hours, cash bonuses. Buy personal technology and use it in the workplace. Millennials much more likely to be on demand workers (4$%) than gen x, baby boomers, or mature workers. Slide 126 is on freelancer categories. Slide 127 is on how quickly freelancers can get work from internet. Slide 128 shows internet enabling commerce such as ebay Etsy, airbnb, upwork, uber, thumbtack, soundcloud, and stripe.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

educationtoday: Future shock: Teaching yourself to learn - 0 views

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  • if you’re not among the 10-15% of the population that has learned how to master and complement computers, you’ll be doomed to earn low wages in dead-end jobs.
  • “There are two things people need to learn how to do to be employable at a decent wage: first, learn some skills which complement the computer rather than compete against it. Some of these are technical skills, but a lot of them will be soft skills, like marketing, persuasion and management that computers won’t be able to do any time soon. 
  • There has arisen a kind of parallel network – a lot of it is on the Internet, a lot of it is free – where people teach themselves things, often very effectively.
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  • Liberal arts education and the humanities will remain important. They’re still underrated. People get their own liberal arts education on the Internet; it may be weird, low-status stuff that a lot of us have never heard of, like computer games, or celebrities or sports analytics.
  • Education occurs in many forms; it’s not the same as schooling. We always need to keep that in mind”.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15
     
    blog post by Marilyn Achiron citing Tyler Cowen, economist at George Mason University in VA on teaching yourself to learn, July 29, 2015. We have cited Cowen in our blog posts at least once. He is a Uber fan and favors marketplace economics for settling competitive battles. He also embraces ongoing, online learning that people set up for themselves.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 09 Sep 14
     
    article by Natasha Singer on sharing economy and gig economy, reliance on technology such as Uber, Lyft, Sidecar for connecting strangers with drivers of their own cars, Task Rabbit for online chores. Check app. Accept. Job. Repeat.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Sexual harassment and the sharing economy: the dark side of working for strangers | Bus... - 0 views

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  • But almost entirely overlooked amid the public outrage is the massive pool of low-wage workers – especially in the sharing economy – who are vulnerable to a wide range of abuses on the job because they lack basic labor rights.
  • “We have to talk about this as a problem these platforms have created,” said Mary Anne Franks, a University of Miami law professor who studies online abuse. “[If you’re] going to set up a platform to make it possible for people to instantaneously communicate with people they don’t know ... you know full well it’s going to be abused and weaponized.”
  • The success of many on-demand companies like DoorDash depends on hiring a large, cheap workforce of contract employees who have no benefits or job security.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Aug 17
     
    the guardian on low wage workers in the sharing economy and their vulnerability to abuse because they lack basic labor rights.
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