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How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
How Technology Is Destroying Jobs futuramb: technologyreview.com Automation is reducing the need for people in many jobs. Are we facing a future of stagnant income and worsening inequality?Given his calm and reasoned academic demeanor, it is easy to miss just how provocative Erik Brynjolfsson’s contention reall…
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How the “Do What You Love” Mantra Enables Exploitation
technoccult: Klint Finley Miya Tokumitsu writes about the myth of “Do What You Love” (DWYL): One consequence of this isolation is the division that DWYL creates among workers, largely along class lines. Work becomes divided into two opposing classes: that which is lovable (creative, intellectual, socially prestigious) and that which is not (repetitive, unintellectual, undistinguished).…
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It should be no surprise that unpaid interns abound in fields that are highly socially desirable, including fashion, media, and the arts. These industries have long been accustomed to masses of employees willing to work for social currency instead of actual wages, all in the name of love. Excluded from these opportunities, of course, is…
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Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi (Wired UK)
Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi (Wired UK) University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted version of Python known as Micro Python and…
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prostheticknowledge: The Machine To Be Another – Gender Swap Art + tech experiment where particpants view themselves in the body of their opposite sex using a camera mounted Oculus Rift each – video embedded below [features nudity]: Gender Swap is an experiment that uses themachinetobeanother.org/ system as a platform for embodiment experience (a neuroscience technique…