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By Irving Wladawsky-Berger
In a 1930 essay, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, English economist John Maynard Keynes wrote about the onset of “a new disease” which he called technological unemployment, that is “unemployment due…
In 2013 Oxford’s Martin School conducted a study of over 700 job types and came to the conclusion that 47% of all jobs could be automated within 20 years. Industry tech leaders are increasingly talking about the impact automation is going to have on society in…
So automation and technology is displacing jobs. What are some ideas these leaders propose:
Bill Gates recommends we tax robotic workers so that we can recapture some…
I remain skeptical of true general purpose AI using classical computing architecture. But deep learning algorithms have improved pattern recognition enough to be useful, and certainly better than the old bayesian approach that was popular in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Automation, robotization, off-shoring/globalism — rationalization in all forms — come from the drive toward maximizing efficiency.
Taylorism.
But if everything “workers” usually do has been rationalized away — well, then the human race will have to reassess what our purpose really is.
TL;DR version: Some thoughts and rants after personally experiencing a near-major road accident.
Key Metric — Network Effects
E-invoicing is conversion of manual invoices into electronic ones. Sending and receiving electronic invoices is great as it saves time and effort for businesses.
