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The Global Arbitrage of Online Work - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Not all those young companies will survive, but the habit of hiring online seems baked in; 64 percent of respondents said at least half of their work force would be online by 2015, and 94 percent predicted that in 10 years most businesses would consist of online temps and physical full-time workers." One more thing: it seems that the educational degree is not considered as being 'very important' when hiring online help. Quentin Hardy (Bits, The New York Times) concludes 'In the future, having a degree may be helpful, but having a reputation will be even better.' Taking this one step further, rating systems such as Klout (not necessarily Klout itself) could become a very important part of your social capital. Of course, such reputation measures could be organized by the major online staffing companies -  like eBay for instance uses its famous reputation system.  Reputation as social capital will translate this way into financial capital - and could be a crucial data point for financial companies which could use these data to decide about your creditworthiness...
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Canon Eyes Robot-only Production for Cameras | Business | TIME.com - 0 views

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    Canon Inc. is moving toward fully automating digital camera production in an effort to cut costs - a key change being played out across Japan, a world leader in robotics.
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Europe Has Warm Feelings For Robots - Real Time Brussels - WSJ - 0 views

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    "The Eurobarometer poll shows that a surprising 70% of Europeans have a "fairly positive" or "very positive" view of robots. This is great news for human-robot relations." Fascinating. As the post explains, only 6 procent of Europeans ever used a robot. But then again, maybe it's about time to discuss robotics in society at large? 
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There comes yet another DJ journalist - 0 views

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    "'If it's not talking to each other, it's not a market.' Europe, despite being a political union (of sorts), does not yet feel like a real market. Part of the solution would be to know more about each other, and to talk to each other more often. That's what 'Whiteboard' wants to offer: a place to find information about interesting businesses and innovation, and to talk about it." So yet another DJ journalist, as professor Mark Deuze would say. Raf Weverbergh left the Flemish magazine Humo and started his own venture, Whiteboard.  He won't be the one who is on stage all the time creating his very own content, but rather he invites contributors to talk about entrepreneurship in Europe. Which seems like a great idea, as Europe is not just that doom and gloom continent - but it needs media ventures to talk about its entrepreneurs and to facilitate the conversation between entrepreneurs. So I cannot wait to hear a thousand (or more) entrepreneurial voices on Whiteboard reporting about exciting new things in Europe! 
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'We live in a culture of real virtuality' - 0 views

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    The famous sociologist Manuel Castells in an interview by Paul Mason (BBC):  "With Facebook and with all these social networks what happened is that we live constantly networked. We live in a culture of not virtual reality, but real virtuality because our virtuality, meaning the internet networks, the images are a fundamental part of our reality. We cannot live outside this construction of ourselves in the networks of communication." Ever wondered why people try to redefine themselves by nationalism, regionalism, membership of small subcultures, even though the world is globalizing fast? I think Castells has some anwers on that too:  "The more we are connected to everything and everybody and every activity, the more we need to know who we are. Unless I know who I am, I don't know where I am in the world, because then I am a consumer, I am taken by the market, I am taken by the media. "And therefore people decide that they are going to be different. But to do that, they have to identify themselves as individuals, as collectives, as nations, as genders, all these categories that sociologists have already constructed time ago." Castells explains how people in this crisis engage in co-operative or non-profit work. It's a kind of 'non-capitalism'.  Putting now on my list: his new book Aftermath. 
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The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Te... - 0 views

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    I can take a photo of a check and deposit it in my bank account, then turn around and find a new book through a Twitter link and buy it, all while being surveilled by a drone in Afghanistan and keeping track of how many steps I've walked. The question is, as it has always been: now what?
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Mark Vanderbeeken: The English Language Innovation Bias | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com - 0 views

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    *This piece was originally published, in Italian, in the exceedingly innovative (and very Italian) website "Che Futuro." *As somebody who spends a lot of time in non-Anglophone countries, this is a situation that I see commonly. I rarely see it as well-described as this.
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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    A much talked-about article in the New York Times about the fact that the manufacturing of iPhone-like devices no longer takes place in the US. 
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The Futurist: A Future Timeline for Economics - 0 views

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    The accelerating rate of change in many fields of technology all manifest themselves in terms of human development, some of which can be accurately tracked within economic data.  Contrary to what the media may peddle and despite periodic setbacks, average human prosperity is rising at a rate faster than any other time in human history.  
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Uneconomics: a challenge to the power of the economics profession | openDemocracy - 0 views

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    It is time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth about the public status of economics as an expert discipline: it has grown to be far more powerful as a tool of political rhetoric, blame avoidance and elite strategy than for the empirical representation of economic life.
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Book Event: Steven Johnson on the Rise of the "Peer Progressive" | Personal Democracy F... - 0 views

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    "Is there a new political philosophy emerging from things like open source software development; massive community sharing hubs like Wikipedia, Kickstarter, and Reddit; peer-to-peer social networking; experiments in "Liquid Democracy," and the rapid spread of resource sharing tools like ZipCar, AirBnb and Car2go? Is it time to start talking about replacing the "welfare state" with the "partner state"? On Monday September 24 at 7:30pm at the New York Law School, we're looking forward to exploring all those questions and more with noted author Steven Johnson, whose new book Future, Perfect is must-reading for people who believe in the power of open, collaborative peer-to-peer networking to achieve real social progress."
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Unleashing Workers Is Going To Lead To Drastic Changes In How We Work | Co.Exist: World... - 0 views

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    "As technology evolves to make the office more obsolete, it's going to result in massive changes--and massive opportunities." But the process is sometimes painstakingly slow, as it conflicts with traditions, the desire for 'real face time' and office politics. 
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How Codecademy got so hot, so fast - Tech News and Analysis - 2 views

  • more than 1 million users
  • five full-time staffers.
  • I learn best by building things and breaking things, not by just reading something.
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  • bite-sized pieces
  • Programming is the new literacy
  • real-life meetups
  • a Q&A feature within its web product to let people talk to each other
  • skills are the most important factor
  • Michael Bloomberg
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      Codecademy now also has a project with the White House, for a summer course. 
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    Codeacademy is a start-up teaching people to code. It has tremendous succes. 
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