How Computers Are Creating a Second Economy Without Workers - Bill Davidow - Business. Call it the post-employee economy: The digital revolution is creating billions of dollars of wealth in a second world without people Mikulich Alexander Andreevich / Shutterstock When the disappointing jobs numbers were reported last week (employers added 120,000 jobs in March, about half the number reported in the two previous months), analysts tripped over themselves looking for an explanation.
Of course, jobs numbers are bound to vary, but in my view the long-term trend calls for more jobs to disappear, and the reason is clear as day: the exploding Second Economy. The Second Economy -- a term the economist Brian Arthur uses to describe the computer-intensive portion of the economy -- is, quite simply, the virtual economy. One of its main byproducts is the replacement of low-productivity workers with computers. Unfortunately, the Second Economy will not create many jobs. Humans Won't Survive on Half of Earth by 2300. Average global temperatures, that have been rising for a century already, due to anthropogenic climate change, won’t suddenly stop rising in 2100, say Australian and US scientists in a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Up to half of the planet would become uninhabitable by the 2300s with an average global temperature rise of 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit. [social_buttons] This would make much larger regions into uninhabitable deserts than now. Humans would not be able to adapt or survive in such conditions. “If this happens, our current worries about sea level rise, occasional heat waves and bushfires, biodiversity loss and agricultural difficulties will pale into insignificance beside a major threat – as much as half the currently inhabited globe may simply become too hot for people to live there,” said Professor Tony McMichael, one of the authors.
The scientists give the 21.6 degrees Fahrenheit rise a 50/50 chance. Unheard of mineral discovered in a cave in Spain. A team of researchers from the Geological Survey of Spain and the Complutense de Madrid University has discovered a new mineral, the zaccagnaita-3R, in a cave known as “The Soplao,” located in the historical northern region of Cantabria.
Hawking: If Humans Survive a Couple Centuries, We’ll Get Off This Rock. Listen, people of Earth: Everything’s going to be fine.
All we have to do is survive another century or two without self-destructing as a species. Next iPhone said to get new touch panel tech. Apple's next iPhone may tap into new touch panel technology, allowing for a lighter device, according to an Asia-based report.
An improvement in production "yield rates" of "in-cell touch panels" has induced Apple to begin working with two Japanese companies, DigiTimes said, citing sources. Those panels are being made by Japan-based Sharp and a division of Toshiba. Chinese Physicists Smash Distance Record For Teleportation Teleportation is the extraordinary ability to transfer objects from one location to another without travelling through the intervening space.
The idea is not that the physical object is teleported but the information that describes it. This can then be applied to a similar object in a new location which effectively takes on the new identity. And it is by no means science fiction. Physicists have been teleporting photons since 1997 and the technique is now standard in optics laboratories all over the world. The phenomenon that makes this possible is known as quantum entanglement, the deep and mysterious link that occurs when two quantum objects share the same existence and yet are separated in space. Teleportation turns out to be extremely useful. For that reason, teleportation is the enabling technology behind quantum cryptography, a way of sending information with close-to-perfect secrecy. Unfortunately, entangled photons are fragile objects. Black-Scholes: The maths formula linked to the financial crash.
27 April 2012Last updated at 19:06 ET By Tim Harford BBC Radio 4, More or Less.
30 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials That You Can't Missed. With so many designs and photo manipulation software in the market, one can easily get confuse with all these choices.
On the other hand, there are also certain software that is crafted for only certain purposes, perhaps one would prefer a software that could solve most of your needs, instead of installing multiple software or programs for various different designing needs. There is after all one particular software that can answer to most of a designer’s need be it in photo manipulation, graphic design or other design purposes, introducing Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop was first introduced around 1999, while it is popular for photo manipulation, the software also offers many other effects and is capable for many feats. In fact, Photoshop is still one of the most versatile and powerful designing programs up till this very moment.
There is a large amount of Photoshop tutorials found on the Internet and each one is catered to a specific purpose. How to Create Cityscape Concept Art.
Chase Jarvis - The Photography Gear I Use. Cameras From pro dslr and medium format to broadcast and hddslr video cameras, if it’s got a hole on the front and it records a picture, this is where you’ll find it.
Featuring gear from Nikon, Hasselblad, Olympus, Fujifilm, Canon and Sony. Lenses. Misc. A Day Without Media.