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Dec 26, 2015

Review: The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Rise of the Robots (RoR) was voted as the Financial Time’s Business Book of the Year* for 2015.

I found the book to be a disappointment. RoR…

Propaganda in the age of Wikileaks

Gloria Origgi, in Edge 335 states that we are leaving the information age behind and are entering a reputation age. She posits that one of the reasons for the influence Wikileaks wields in current political and social discourse is due to powerful, and reputed media…

Saving the American Job

I read this editorial early last month when it was published on the Bloomberg opinion pages. It was by Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. It is a thought provoking, if somewhat incendiary piece.