The Maddeningly Simple Way Tech Companies Can Employ More Women
From the New York Times, August 15, 2017 by Katherine Zaleski: I am the co-founder of a company that helps clients find ways to diversify their work force. We recently…
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Robocalypse Now? Central Bankers Argue Whether Automation Will Kill Jobs
From today’s New York Times by Jack Ewing: SINTRA, Portugal — The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of…
A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree
From today’s New York Times by Steve Lohr: ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. — A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income…
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Is the Gig Economy Working?—For Some, But Not For Most Workers
From this month’s The New Yorker magazine by Nathan Heller: The American workplace is both a seat of national identity and a site of chronic upheaval and shame. The industry…
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How Tech Companies are Waging “Psyops” Warfare on American and British Democracies
From yesterday’s Guardian by Carole Cadwalladr: In June 2013, a young American postgraduate called Sophie was passing through London when she called up the boss of a firm where she’d…
Trumpism: The Dangers of Disruption
From today’s New York Times (Opinion Section): by Francis Fukuyama, Senior Fellow, Stanford University In Silicon Valley, where I live, the word “disruption” has an overwhelmingly positive valence: Thousands of…
End the Tyranny of 24/7 Email
From yesterday’s NYT “Opinion” by Clive Thompson: This Labor Day weekend, odds are you’ll peek at your work email on your “day off” — and then feel guilty about it.…
When Tech Makes Work Worse
From yesterday’s NYT “Op-Talk” Blog by Anna North: When we talk about robots taking people’s jobs, we often mean it almost literally — we envision if not the humanoid androids…