Technology: Cognitive inequality | The Economist - 0 views
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roland legrand on 24 Feb 12Will the evolution of the internet reduce or increase cognitive inequality? The answer may not be so straightforward.
What the App Economy Can Teach the Whole Economy - Michael Mandel - Business - The Atla... - 0 views
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The lessons from an infant industry, including the power of cooperation and importance of regulating with a light touch
The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs t... - 0 views
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The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge platforms with lots of income streams
Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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But we idealize America's present culture of innovation too much. In fact, our trailblazing digital firms may not be the hothouse environments for creativity we might think.
Are Brick-and-Mortar Economists Leading Us Astray? - Bill Davidow - Business - The Atla... - 0 views
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Increased levels of connectivity are rendering economic rules obsolete.
Three questions to Judy Klein | Institute for New Economic Thinking - 0 views
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how US military needs during World War II and the Cold War steered engineers and applied mathematicians to an economic way of thinking about scarce resources, including limited computational resources, and how economists subsequently incorporated that mathematics.
Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee | The Race vs. the Stagna... - 0 views
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Two economists offer opposite explanations about why job growth in the United States and other developed economies remains extremely weak.
BBC News - Has the internet sparked an educational revolution? - 0 views
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The BBC's Matt Danzico investigates what place traditional academic institutions have in a world consumed by do-it-yourself education.
Paul Mason - Kicking Off the Revolution | Peter Geoghegan - 0 views
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'We're in the middle of a revolution caused by the near collapse of free-market capitalism combined with an upswing in technical innovation, a surge in desire for individual freedom and a change in consciousness about what freedom means.'
Washington Post on productivity - Mandel on Innovation and Growth - 0 views
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Yesterday the Washington Post had a great piece in the business section entitled "Economists offer more pessimistic view on manufacturing in upcoming report."
Will · Really thought-provoking talk from danah boyd,... - 0 views
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Really thought-provoking talk from danah boyd, primarily about how in the competition for attention we want to promote fear, and that social media perpetuates this.
What Export-Oriented America Means - Tyler Cowen - The American Interest Magazine - 0 views
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L et's first take a step back and see where these new American exports will be coming from. At least three forces are likely to combine to make the United States an export powerhouse.
The Future of the U.S. Economy: Apple, Exxon, and Robots - Megan McArdle - Business - T... - 0 views
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Tyler Cowen has a nice essay up at The American Interest on an Export-Oriented America. He offers us three reasons to be optimistic about the US export future: artificial intelligence, shale oil and gas, and a rising Asian Middle Class. I think he more or less nails the last two, what I refer as the Exxon and Apple economies, respectively.
The (continuing) institutional revolution « BuzzMachine - 0 views
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I just read a fascinating book by Douglas W. Allen, The Institutional Revolution, which attempts to explain England's transition from its apparently illogical early-modern institutions - aristocracy, purchased army commissions, lighthouses, private roads, even dueling - to modern institutions. And today, we see many of those institutions challenged.
Social Media Week - "Keynote: Jonah Peretti, Founder And CEO Of BuzzFeed On The Future ... - 0 views
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The rise of social platforms and content sharing is driving a major shift in the media industry. Increasingly, people are getting ALL their media through the social web: cute animals, breaking news, personal updates, branded content, humor, jokes, music and entertainment are all mixed together in a single interface.
The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing ... - 0 views
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The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing are Ushering in a Sustainable Era of Distributed Capitalism
Levi Bryant: "Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan's Graph of Sexuation" | Speculativ... - 0 views
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"Audio of Levi Bryant's lecture, "Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan's Graph of Sexuation" which took place at Independent Colleges in Dublin on 3 July. Part 2 with responses from Paul Ennis and Michael O'Rourke will be available shortly. "
Looking Back: The Wonders We Didn't Expect | World Future Society - 0 views
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"It has been a wild ride of a century full of expected wonders. Molecular manufacturing became a reality well before 2050, turning all sorts of once-valuable materials into commodities, and yes, we even eventually got flying cars."
Chinese Company To Acquire Complete Genomics, Become World Genomics Powerhouse | Singul... - 0 views
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"The acquisition could be read as a signal to the world that China is determined to be a major competitor in the future genome sequencing market."
Drone Journalism Lab - 0 views
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"Links, thoughts and research into using drones, UAVs or remotely piloted vehicles for journalism at the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications. "
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