On this week’s Moyers & Company, Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith, creator of the finance and economics blog Naked Capitalism, discuss the folly and corruption of both banks and government, and how that tag-team leaves deep wounds in our democracy.
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How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy
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Prosthetics, Brain Implants and the Future Human
Technologies to help the physically and mentally disabled are advancing fast. Will they be made available to "able-bodied" people as well? Do we want to develop into a super-species that lives forever? If it’s possible, is it inevitable? Also, President Obama addresses the economy and leaks of classified information. On Reporter’s Notebook, racism and world-class soccer players in Eastern Europe.
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Should We Blame Technology for High Unemployment?
KCRW’s To The Point Should We Blame Technology for High Unemployment? WED OCT 26, 2011
From farms to factories, and now to the service economy, human workers are losing their jobs to machines. The "creative destruction" that used to increase employment is working the other way around, and productivity is on the rise. As computers become more sophisticated, how can humans learn to compete?
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp111026should_we_blame_tech
Tagged with technology unemployment automation economy
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Ken Robinson: Rethinking Educational Paradigms
Celebrated education expert Ken Robinson argues that most "modern" approaches to learning are actually relics of an outdated, industrial-age system. This program was recorded in collaboration with the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival, on July 8, 2010.
Sir Ken Robinson is an expert in creativity, innovation, and human resources. He works with governments in Europe, Asia, and the United States, and with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and cultural organizations. Robinson led a national commission on creativity, education, and the economy for the UK government and was central in forming a creative- and economic-development strategy as part of the Northern Ireland peace process. Formerly, he was professor of education at the University of Warwick.
He has received several honorary degrees, the Athena Award from the Rhode Island School of Design, the Peabody Medal, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Royal Society of Arts. He received a knighthood for his services to the arts. His latest book is The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything (Viking, 2009).
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The Friday Podcast: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil : Planet Money : NPR
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Tech Weekly: the iPad launch
Join Aleks Krotoski, Jemima Kiss and Charles Arthur as they dig into the implications of the new Apple iPad, released last Friday, and already a huge market success. The machine, which has sold more than 2m units in 60 days, hasn’t yet found its killer app, but Jemima – who has one – and Charles – who doesn’t want one – predict it will transform the technological landscape.
But don’t just take their word for it. Web user interaction expert Jakob Nielsen describes why in an interview with Jack Schofield. He also defines what developers need to know when designing portable touchscreen interfaces.
And the numbers have it too: Apple beat Microsoft for the biggest technology company in the world. Charles tells the story behind the numbers, and explains why, in the future, Apple will remain top gun.
The team also tackles the first real outcome of the controversial Digital Economy Act. Communications regulator Ofcom has published first draft of its proposed code of actions for copyright infringers. The three-strikes system is up for debate in the consultation that lasts until 30 July.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/audio/2010/jun/01/tech-weekly-ipad-launch
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Fear Is the Mind-killer by Jeremy Keith
These opening remarks were delivered at a debate on The Digital Economy Act held in Brighton in April 2010.
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Podcast: President Obama
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Click Below to Listen President Obama, fallen to earth from the euphoria of his inauguration, is running against a ticking clock. Congressional Democrats are growing impatient with his muscular approach to Afghanistan, Iran is testing his self-imposed deadline to come to the bargaining table over its nuclear ambitions, and next year’s midterm campaigns will soon bear down on his legislative agenda. But the biggest threat to his political potency may be the slow recovery of the American economy, a challenge that is largely out his hands.
With Richard W. Stevenson, deputy Washington bureau chief, and Mark Leibovich, a Washington correspondent, Political Points host David D. Kirkpatrick reviews President Obama’s first year in office and his relations with the press.
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Everything Incorporated
Social critic Douglas Rushkoff is ready to think big in response to the economic crisis still rocking the U.S. and the world. Really big.
Rushkoff thinks we got off track as a society a ways back. About 400 years back.
He’s not against capitalism. But the form we fell into –corporate capitalism – is killing us, he says. Killing values and communities. Turning us into the “brand that is me.” Turning homes into investments and 401k balances into cold barometers of success or failure.
It doesn’t have to be this way, he says.
This hour, On Point: Douglas Rushkoff rethinks our corporatized lives.
From: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/06/douglas-rushkoffs-life-inc
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Michael Pollan, “Deep Agriculture”
The benefit of a reformed food system, besides better food, better environment and less climate shock, is better health and the savings of trillions of dollars. Four out of five chronic diseases are diet-related. Three quarters of medical spending goes to preventable chronic disease. Pollan says we cannot have a healthy population, without a healthy diet. The news is that we are learning that we cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture. And right now, farming is sick…
http://blog.longnow.org/2009/05/06/michael-pollan-deep-agriculture/
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