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"As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy? Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines 'the useless class' and a new quest for purpose"

Brilliant find Roland, will some help the rest of us to participate here, or have they done so already and I missed it? Thanks again.

"documents the downward trend in the labor share of income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries, and workers of different skill groups, using newly assembled data for a large sample of advanced and emerging market and developing economies. The chapter then analyzes the forces behind these trends. Technological progress, reflected in the steep decline in the relative price of investment goods, along with varying exposure to routine-based occupations, explains about half the overall decline in advanced economies, with a larger negative impact on the earnings of middle-skilled workers. "

Looks like a useful entry point

Typing or mouse clicking just by using your brain. Listening through your skin. That's what they dream about at Facebook.

This is stuff for helping journalists to start up projects, however it is useful for other industries as well as it also contains tools for developing business plans and rapid prototyping. Have a look maybe.

Ouch.

"He believes that although technology can objectively decrease risk of a particular kind or make us feel less vulnerable in particular way, any technology that decreases some kind of risk also introduces new risks, thereby altering the ways in which we are at risk and experience vulnerability. Thus, rather than think of the human-technology dialectic as a process that makes humans less vulnerable, it is better conceptualized, he believes, as a process of transformation--a process that transforms human vulnerability."

'we'll begin to unpack the 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for augmented reality (AR) glasses that can use the information you choose to share, to infer what you want to do, when you want to do it'

Individuals and organizations use this environment to set in motion and contribute to crowd-based economic processes. They create or contribute to open and collaborative projects, they crowdsource resources and harness collective intelligence.

AR NFT, a new trend

A cool new toy I want to explore: Lidar in my phone.

zoom and ethics, difficult relationship

by Renée DiResta, the Technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. "Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level"