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2013-05-17 05:15:34 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Original Document by Eric Fortune  http://goo.gl/6jMZp

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ESSAYS & ARTICLES

The Law of Accelerating Returns 
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns

Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/1930/our-grandchildren.htm

Robots Will Steal Your Job But That’s Okay
http://io9.com/5885512/robots-will-steal-your-job-but-thats-okay-how-to-survive-the-coming-economic-collapse

Robotic Nation
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

Race Against the Machine in the Economist
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/11/technological-unemployment  

A Detailed Critique of Race Against the Machine
http://declineofscarcity.com/?p=1037
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2013-05-15 17:46:36 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-15 13:40:42 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-14 12:35:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

overview effect from being in space...

2013-05-14 10:31:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-13 14:40:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-12 14:10:50 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-12 02:06:06 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

New G+ page for a new regular hangout on air

2013-05-11 21:36:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The whole crux of the article is that automation is poised to make even more disruptive changes and that we haven't seen anything yet.

2013-05-11 21:58:52 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-11 15:45:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

#PostScarcity is total freedom, extreme abundance.

2013-05-11 15:40:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/prisco20130318

2013-05-11 15:40:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

32 year-old Dmitry Itskov has been planning to upload his brain to a hologram body by 2045 to gain immortality.

2013-05-11 05:39:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

http://www.singularityweblog.com/jacque-fresco-the-venus-project/

2013-05-10 15:05:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is a pretty neat concept. Over the next several years jobs will become scarcer as automation kicks in and efficiencies go up further. There will be a need for people with certain skills that computers can not currently do.

Enter gamification, where those tasks that require a human mind become converted to games and are played online. Much like the protein folding game http://fold.it  These games can be farmed out to millions of people and reduce the need for people with those specialized skills. 

2013-05-09 07:38:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Vinge's concerns echo those of Martin Ford's in his book, Lights in The Tunnel, which focuses squarely on growing unemployment as robots and software continue to displace more and more humans. This concern is also echoed by Al Gore in his remarkably well researched book, The Future. It's a theme that's picked up as well in my upcoming sci-fi novel (at the risk of some shameless self-promotion), The Early 21st Century Renaissance Men.   You'll note that the last few economic turnarounds (stock-market-wise) were based on jobless recoveries, which makes sense if the top one percent are reaping all the rewards of getting rid of those costly employees without sharing any of the wealth in taxes on said gains.

2013-05-09 05:24:11 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-05-07 21:52:58 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Kodak employed 140,000 workers during its heyday, Instagram employed just 13 people.

Is Sillicon Valley hollowing out the economy? Jaron Lanier's latest book 'Who Owns the Future?' dives deep into that very question.

2013-05-07 02:16:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-06 21:34:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-06 14:42:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#RaceAgainstTheMachine #TechnologicalUnemployment . An article focusing on +Erik Brynjolfsson and +Andrew McAfee's findings.

2013-05-06 12:35:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

“I recognize that this tool might be used to harm people."

2013-05-05 15:57:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-04 16:49:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Batter up! Japanese scientists have built a baseball-playing robot with a 100,000-neuron fake brain using NVIDIA GPUs and CUDA. The aim of their research is to help better understand human motor function, and one day uncover the causes of motor neuron diseases. Check out the article on @CNN below and our blog here: http://ow.ly/kxtnR

2013-05-04 02:11:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The latest from +Andrew McAfee . #RaceAgainstTheMachine   #TechnologicalUnemployment  .

2013-05-03 17:46:05 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

World's first ever Bitcoin ATM unveiled in San Diego

2013-05-02 02:35:44 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

2013-05-02 00:39:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hangouts Remote Desktop: tech support with a personal touch

For those of you who play tech support for friends and family, there’s now a Hangouts app to make things easier -- powered by the same technology behind Chrome Remote Desktop. 

Hangouts Remote Desktop lets you help others by controlling their computer remotely (with their permission, of course). And because you’re both in a Hangout, you can talk with and see each other during the session.

To get started, just start a Hangout and click View More Apps > Add Apps > Hangouts Remote Desktop. 

Let us know what you think, and please keep the feedback coming!

#googleplusupdate

2013-05-01 01:47:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-04-30 02:02:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

new links put together by +Martin Ford 

2013-04-28 22:11:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Although it has no new points this is an eloquent statement of why skepticism of technological unemployment is still merited--namely the immense difficulty of imagining with any certainty what currently unforeseeable new tasks people may find to do in the future.

2013-04-28 15:09:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

More on Baxter.  It seems like the last mile is still setup - creating fixtures, figuring out what tools would be best to use, CNC programming, etc, before hitting "Copies: 500, Print". Also, I'm curious what is involved with creating custom grippers, even in the videos I've seen several that I don't believe come standard.

2013-04-27 03:09:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Kurzweil argues that AI is proceeding much faster than people think, and that the development is accelerating. People tend to assume that useful AI will only appear in some distant future, “not in our lifetimes,” when actually we are already living in a world where AI drives many of our trains and airplanes, and a few of our cars. The algorithms that power Google and Bing searches are a form of useful AI, as are voice-based command systems like Siri."

#artificialintelligence #robots #jobs #work

2013-04-27 00:29:50 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-04-27 00:18:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Middle class: Experts say millions more jobs are at stake

2013-04-27 00:15:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-26 22:19:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Rodney Brooks on the manifold applications for robotics about to reach fruition

2013-04-25 21:32:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

heh. #RaceAgainstTheMachine   #TechnologicalUnemployment  . The latest from +Andrew McAfee .

2013-04-25 01:54:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-20 02:55:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

MIT's technology review had an article this week, will robots create new jobs when they take over existing ones. The answer to that question is a full on an emphatic no. The robot shown below is named Baxter, manufactured by rethink robotics. Baxter is a human safe robot that moves at slow speed so as to not injure humans. Baxter is programmable by showing him objects and what needs to be done with those objects. No programming is required.

Given the CAD files, software, hardware, and wiring diagrams of Baxter he can be redesigned so that he can manufactured copies of himself. With the ability to download and upload manufacturing processes from one robot to another, it would allow you to train a single robot, then  transfer that knowledge to robots on other assembly lines doing the same job.

See Alsomore »

2013-04-19 21:36:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Reddit trying to solve the Boston Marathon bombing.

2013-04-19 18:57:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

NASA has discovered three exoplanets that may be capable of supporting life, and one of them may be the most Earth-like alien world spotted to date. http://on.mash.to/102Aer3

2013-04-18 14:06:19 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hunt begins for Alien megaprojects

With scans for alien radio signals drawing a blank, three teams are now searching for signs of extraterrestrial engineering. Rather than trying to intercept alien communications, perhaps we should go looking for alien artefacts.

What they're after is something rather grander than flint arrowheads or shards of pottery. Something big. Planet-sized power stations. Star-girdling rings or spheres. Computers the size of a solar system. Perhaps even an assembly of hardware so vast it can darken an entire galaxy.

Humanity has already covered vast areas of Earth's surface with roads and cities, and begun sending probes to other planets. If we can do all this in a matter of centuries, what could more advanced civilisations do over many thousands or even millions of years?

In a similar position, alien civilisations could... more »

2013-04-18 02:11:27 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

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2013-04-17 18:41:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

1) Throw on wingsuit.
2) Jump off cliff.
3) Fly 100+ mph.
4) Fit body through rock hole.

Piece of cake.

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2013-04-17 00:52:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

COMING SOON TO A BODY NEAR YOU? WORLD’S SMALLEST CHIP TO BE SWALLOWABLE - The Internet of Things is coming, but chips need to be more efficient, powerful—and even smaller than they are now. In all categories, Freescale Semiconductor is making waves. And their most recent contribution, the Kinetis KL02, is one of the smallest microcontrollers in the world.