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Not Happy With Work? Wait Until You're 50 or Older - ABC News - 0 views

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  • NORC at the University of Chicago.
  • Looking at the 40-year history of the GSS
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Body-Double: Lifelike Android Demoed at Futuristic Conference - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 16 Jun 13 - No Cached
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      tsweetholp on 16 Jun 13
       
      Transhumanity - we could be in trouble here.
  • "trans humanity,
  • human?
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  • Collectively, Ishiguro's work pushes the boundaries of what he called
  • where the line between humans and technology disappears. After all, he asked, what is a
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College Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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shared by tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • By some measures, nearly half of employed college graduates are in jobs that don't traditionally require a college degree.
  • companies needed hundreds of thousands of skilled workers to develop, build and install high-tech systems
  • ew technologies may eventually revive demand for advanced skills, he added, but an economic recovery alone won't be sufficient.
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  • demand for such skills has fallen in recent years, even as young people continued to flock to programs that taught them.
  • Brian Hackett, who graduated with honors from the College of New Jersey in 2010 with a political-science degree, is among those who haven't found full-time work.
  • too few workers with the right set of skills, particularly in high-end manufacturing and certain trades.
  • The subsequent housing boom helped mask the problem by creating artificially high demand for workers of all kinds, but only temporarily.
  • College-educated employees also tend to earn more and advance more quickly even when they are in fields that don't require a degree.
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      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      All is not lost -at least there is some good news.
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      tsweetholp on 28 Mar 13
       
      College-educated employees also tend to earn more and advance more quickly even when they are in fields that don't require a degree.
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Workers Over 60 Make More Than Colleagues - Yahoo! Finance - 0 views

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  • eople who take longer to get into career-track positions, or who start out earning very low wages, may never
  • make up that lost financial ground.
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