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Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com
Editor's note: Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the author of "Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age" and "Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back." (CNN) -- The U.S.
A Better System of Economics
IEET > Security > Eco-gov > Rights > Economic > Vision > Technoprogressivism > Contributors > Mohamad Tarifi Print • Email • permalink • (52) Comments • (7680) Hits • subscribe • • • • • • ‘Panoply’ provides equal economic opportunity and basic income security, encourages community building and long term thinking, resolves the tragedy of the commons in a mature way, and is resilient to future changes in automation and robotics.Biggest threat to future? The jobs crisis - CNN.com
Editor's note: Christine Owens is executive director of the National Employment Law Project , a nonprofit advocacy organization for employment rights of lower-wage workers.
Most economists are predicting yet another jobless economic recovery, and the data on unemployment so far certainly supports that scenario. The consensus is that the job market may well take years to recover.
Martin Ford: A Jobless Recovery... And A Jobless Future?
What causes a jobless recovery from recession?
A groundbreaking new book looks at the economy, markets and technologies of the future.Jun 3rd 2011, 13:33 by R.A. | WASHINGTON AMERICAN labour markets are faltering , and the script looks distressingly familiar.
America's jobless recovery: Not again | The Economist
Beyond a Jobless Recovery | Some hope and insight for troubled times…
Summary: Mainstream economics assumes demand for almost anything is infinite. Thus, the theory goes, when human workers get replaced by robots, or better design means less human labor is needed, then there will soon be new jobs making new things; the only issue might be retraining.
The End of Work: the Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era by Jeremy Rifkin - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
I read this book on the suggestion of a friend. In general, I'm not a fan.
It's been a few weeks since I read it and the details are already fuzzy - he provides a lot of examples and detailed explanations to back up his thesis.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
Like it or not, the fact is computers and technology in general will continue to factor more heavily in our daily lives as each day passes.
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
Jeremy Rifkin on Europe's Uncertain Future: The End of Work - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
By Jeremy Rifkin European politicians often like to blame outsourcing for the disappearance of jobs.The Robot Revolution: Your Job May Be Next
W ithout a doubt, America has reached the age of the robot . In the past few years, hundreds of robotic breakthroughs have made headlines: unmanned planes, bots in space, dancing robots, self-driving cars, a Jeopardy-playing robot. Now, the President wants even more.Robots have been replacing more and more human workers for quite some time now, but in most instances they're still just being programmed to perform specific tasks.
Tokyo Institute of Technology's SOINN robot teaches itself to serve humans (video) -- Engadget
IMAGINE a robotic tailor and you probably think of something like Ginsberg and Cohen, the fractious cyborgs in Woody Allen's film Sleeper .
Robots show their soft side - opinion - 22 June 2011 - New Scientist
By now most people who know anything about the world of consumer electronics know that most of the gadgets they love — their iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and so on — are made in China in huge factories, many of them owned by a Taiwanese company called Foxconn. Foxconn has in recent years seen its share of negative press. There was an explosion that killed three people at one of its plants in June.