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"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. "

Title: How Coders Hacked Back to 'Rescue' $208 Million in Ethereum Excerpt: On Wednesday, an anonymous hacker (or hackers) stole $32 million worth of ethereum's cryptocurrency, ether, from three multi-signature wallets thanks to a vulnerability in t…

Interesting book about how to survive the future, Bob has a background in asian religions and seems to apply this in his howto escape boxes in a post-categorical future

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

a last one about the sidebar in Roam (there is far more possible in the sidebard than what you can see in this video, the video maker has a whole series)

This is about afro-futurism, offering eye-opening stats about black characters in scifi-movies, offering a definition of what afro-futurism is about, and most of all it gives insight in the importance of images and stories in building empathy and new futures.

Title: Title: Society-in-the-Loop: Programming the Algorithmic Social Contract Excerpt: Authors: Iyad Rahwan Abstract: Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and gov…

Video-conferencing firm's clients include the US government, Amnesty International and Spotify. A Norwegian videoconferencing company whose technology is used by the US government, Amnesty International, Spotify and PayPal is seeking to raise $200m in what could be the largest software IPO in Scandinavia.

Music in livestream performances, in this case livestreaming archives (if that is a thing)

I find myself recommending this article in multiple situations and settings. It is on almost every syllabus I create regardless of the stated intent of the course. It is an excellent entry point into systems thinking and a cribsheet that anyone hoping to improve organizations and systems ought to have handy

"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."

Transition Design brings together two global memes. First, the idea that entire societies must transition toward more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures and second, that these transitions will require intentional, systems-level change. We see evidence of these memes in the large number of transition-related initiatives springing up around the world, and the rise in the number of tools and knowledge sets aimed at understanding complex systems and systems problems.

The Indieweb is based on owning your own domain name and owning and managing your own web server. As Goldsmith notes, none of these is free, and in fact, they create a significant barrier to participation. "If a movement has at its core a significant barrier to entry, then it is always exclusionary. While we've already seen that the movement has barriers at ability and personality, it is also true that, as of 2021, there is a significant barrier in terms of monetary resources."

Clubhouse's rise is due to its success in harnessing the movement toward cults and away from communities on the internet. That signals a challenge for older social platforms and raises a question of how communities can regain power in the future.

the example given is about journalism, in the roleplaying people are the staff of a newspaper in distress

"The future will like arrive in part by design and in part by disaster. Our challenge is to try to constitute the future through planning and community action, not have the future constitute us," said Alexander.

This is an interesting point of view which reminds me of the Solid-discussion we had. Solid allows the user to control her data and to have an overview of personal data. It also allows seamless integration of many information types and as such it can be used to streamline information at companies and institutions. So Solid could just as well be used to connect seamlessly many types of information about you and me. Maybe we could still consult that information in readable-but-not-writable form, but it would be of even bigger interest to surveillance professionals from states and private companies who probably would have to means to get this information in a readable and writable form.

It's a foregone conclusion that everybody in the world will be a gamer someday. There are only a billion active gamers today. Someday there will be 7 billion, 8 billion active gamers. The growth opportunity for gaming is still well ahead of us. Gaming is the only entertainment that can be any entertainment. You and I both know that when the metaverse [arrives], we're going to spend a lot more time in game worlds, not just to game, but just to hang out, to be with people, to interact with people. The gaming market has a great future ahead of it.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about how to do the most good in the world. They discuss the "effective altruism" movement, choosing causes to support, the apparent tension between wealth and altruism, how best to think about generosity over the course of one's lifetime, and other topics.

Zoom is teaming up with Facebook Inc. to make Zoom Whiteboard available in the social network's Oculus virtual reality headsets. Users will gain the ability to collaborate on documents and other files in a virtual room through Oculus Horizons Workrooms, a VR collaboration app available with Oculus headsets.