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An Updated Version of Algorithms, Robots and the Future of Management
An Updated Version of Algorithms, Robots and the Future of Management emergentfutures: I have updated my blog post with some great information from my friend and colleague Stowe Boyd: “I think business leaders and HR departments do not understand this shift, or the fact that this shift is accelerating, so that in a year or…
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mayhap: Hello Hi There uses the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist/activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two custom-designed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs, designed to mimic human conversations, perform a new – as it were, improvised – live text. As Chomsky and…
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Who Built That Video Game?
Who Built That Video Game? newyorker: Michael Thomsen looks at the outsourcing boom in the video-game industry: http://nyr.kr/1emqPs2 “Simple games like Brain Training, Harvest Moon, and Super Monkey Ball are harder to sell on consoles now that cheaper (or free) variants have emerged for smartphones, tablets, and Facebook….
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emergentfutures: Robots Can’t End Amazon’s Labor Woes Because They Don’t Have Hands The holidays should be a celebratory season for Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer. Instead, the company is facing conflict and tragedy over the work done inside its distribution centers, the massive warehouses where the logistics of holiday package delivery are executed with…
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The traditional assumption that schooling is fundamentally tied to the imperatives of citizenship designed to educate students to exercise civic leadership and public service has been eroded. The schools are now the key institution for producing professional, technically trained, credentialized workers for whom the demands of citizenship are subordinated to the vicissitudes of the marketplace…
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Mancuso showed a slide depicting how trees in a forest organize themselves into far-flung networks, using the underground web of mycorrhizal fungi which connects their roots to exchange information. The pattern of nutrient traffic showed how “mother trees” were using the network to nourish shaded seedlings, including their offspring — which the trees can apparently…