06-12-2014, 12:08 PM
But today "technological unemployment," the term used to describe machines, robots and algorithms replacing human labor for good, is starting to feel less like a far-fetched idea and more like reality, and it has its roots in the exponential nature of technology.
Get ready, robots are going to steal your job
Larson argues that a few features will make highly dense but livable cities possible. One is urban farming, which could involve adding a lightweight “skin” to buildings where crops can grow in a process that is 100 times more land-efficient than conventional farming, and also uses much less water and produces much less carbon dioxide. In China alone, “you have 250 million people moving to cities, mostly farmers, and they’ll need jobs, so it’s a no-brainer,” he said.
Media Lab's Kent Larson Argues that Livability Spawns Urban Innovation | MIT Technology Review
Pretty much every single warning, every data point, every item Laffer complained about was wrong.
What's the Penalty for Pundits Who Get It Wrong? - Bloomberg View
Seventy per cent of my salary goes on rent, which is normal among my peers – but I'm well aware that this situation isn't right.
It’s the defining image of the 1974 World Cup; the defining image of the great Dutch team of the 70s; the defining image of one of the most talented, enchanting and magical players to ever breeze around a football field.
Vogts was then booked for persistently fouling Cruyff, an achievement that was quite remarkable (thanks to the BBC’s David Coleman again) seeing only four minutes had elapsed.
World Cup: 25 stunning moments … No25: the Cruyff Turn is born in 1974 | Football | theguardian.com
4K has securely replaced 3D as the buzzword feature on new TVs, and as content producers scramble to churn out genuine ultra HD content, it looks like Sony's new A7s just might be their weapon of choice. It trades the 36.4 megapixels of the A7R for a 12.2 megapixel sensor optimized to shoot incredible low-light video in the darkest of conditions. For comparison, the Sony A7 and A7R top out at a max ISO setting of 25,600. Where as the new A7S boasts a max ISO setting of 409,600.
Sony's A7s Could Be the New Champion of Low Light Cinematography
Their namesake company is cooking up some awfully ambitious industrial-strength computing technology that, if and when it’s released, could replace a data center’s worth of equipment with a single refrigerator-size machine.
With 'The Machine,' HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer - Businessweek