Robots and algorithms can now build cars, write articles, and translate texts — all work that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee looks at recent labor data to say: We ain’t seen nothing yet.
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/26/173000457/are-droids-taking-our-jobs
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Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist and University of California at Berkeley professor, talks with Russ Roberts about Google, the role of technology in our everyday lives, the unintended paths of innovation, and the value of economics.
From http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/07/varian_on_techn.html
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Yochai Benkler interviewed on the Invisible Hand podcast in 2006.
From http://www.heronandcrane.com/TIH-2006.html
I’m huffing this duff after today’s NYT editorial by Benkler http://www.techmeme.com/100321/p8#a100321p8
March 26 2007 - Author Kevin Kelly talks about the role of technology in our lives, the future of the web, how to time travel, the wisdom of the hive, the economics of reputation, the convergence of the biological and the mechanical, and his impact on the movies The Matrix and Minority Report.