Building a team for real change starting in 2019- Jenny Marshall with Randy BryceOn Tuesday, Marie Newman gave Blue Dog Dan Lipinski a run for his money. With over 92,000 votes cast, just 2,000 separated them. In the end, Lipinski won the primary, 51.2% to 48.8%, although losing the suburban parts of the district where the Cook County Machine was unable to tamper with results.
Tempe, Arizona: A self-driving Uber struck and killed a woman crossing the street. According to reports, a vehicle operator was inside the car at the time of the accident, but the car was in autonomous mode, and he was unable to disengage it in time. [...]
But no matter what environmentalists do, our best efforts are insufficient. We’re losing badly, on every front. Those in power are hell-bent on destroying the planet, and most people don’t care. Frankly, I don’t have much hope. But I think that’s a good thing. Hope is what keeps us chained to the system, the conglomerate of people and ideas and ideals that is causing the destruction of the Earth.
If Seattle’s risky experiment with a $15 an hour minimum wage represents the “canary in the coal mine” for cities around the country that want to increase their minimum wages to $15 an hour, those cities may want to hold off for a few years to get a final count of the “dead canaries” in Seattle before proceeding.
Just 50 years ago, a machine was distributing banknotes for the first time. It was a real revolution at a time when individuals around the world had to go to their bank's counter to collect cash. But with the rise of new technologies, the ATM is either going to have to reinvent itself, or be replaced.
Billions of people and countless machines are connected to each other. Automation, machine learning, mobile computing and artificial intelligence – these are no longer futuristic concepts, they are our reality. And that shouldn't scare you.
Automation has always resulted in new jobs and higher living standards. But many people have a difficult time trusting in what they cannot see and find the iron fist of government more comforting than the invisible hand of the free market.
A video bemoaning the rise of automation and machinery went viral the other day. The video suffers from two fatal errors.
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In this video, former finance minister of Greece, professor of economics, author, and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), Yanis Varoufakis, argues why the Basic Income is a necessity today. His arguments take into account a macro socio-economic, psychological, philosophical and moral perspective. In addition to the speech, Varoufakis addresses a wide range of questions from the public.
People fear robots because they substitute for human workers. But this fear rests on the historically and economically incorrect presumption that the number of productive tasks that we humans can perform gainfully for each other is limited.
