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October 10, 2005
Links
- Kottke - GoogleOS etc - lots of interesting thoughts about applications migrating to the web and how the main players are positioned around this idea.
- BoingBoing - long Charles Platt piece on the neutron bomb and its inventor.
- Robotic Nation - I read this a long while ago and found it again recently. It's about how low skill jobs can increasingly be automated, and kind of a thought experiment about what happens if you robotize all labour. The author comes to the conclusion that we need to start sharing that wealth via a citizens salary or end up in a situation of extreme inequality. To some extent it's not even necessary to assume robots - people in China working for very low salaries (compared to the EU/US) have a somewhat similar effect on our economies. I'm not sure I have the right background to think about what flaws there might be in this analyis, but it's certainly thought-provoking.
Posted by MFreestone at October 10, 2005 04:44 PM