”The system is seriously and profoundly broken”
Det bästa som sagts med anledning av The Panama Papers – av ekonomen Umair Haque: 1. Keynes designed a global economy precisely so that idle surpluses wouldn’t pile up at the top, and produce inequality and stagnation. 2. Today, as I’ve said before, idle surpluses have piled up through extralegal means like offshore finance. The […]
Det tar (betydligt) längre tid att ställa om en drabbad ekonomi
Verkligheten uppför sig inte riktigt som de ekonomiska modellerna, avsnitt 4732: ”Freer trade has inflicted a more grievous toll than economists, myself included, had expected. (…) Most economists took the view that when countries lower their trade barriers, even unilaterally, they prosper. What the British wine industry loses, the UK computer games industry gains. Meanwhile, […]
Retrofuturism i teknikjättarnas arkitektur
”Why are Google and Apple spending billions to build offices that look lifted straight from the 1960s?” Läsvärt i NY Times om digitala erans rötter i – och svårigheter att frigöra sig från – den alternativa 60-talskulturen: Google and Apple: the High-Tech Hippies of Silicon Valley (28 mars 2016) ”Well after the orchards of Northern […]
”Samhällen har inte samma mål som startups”
Dave Winer om övertron på att teknik kan ”fixa” samhället via enkla appar eller hack. ”I see some of the current generation of tech entrepreneurs struggling with this, as I was thirty years ago.”
Draksådd
Varenda IS-krigare i Irak ”… came of age under the disastrous American occupation after 2003, in the chaotic and violent Arab part of Iraq, ruled by the viciously sectarian Shia government of Nouri al-Maliki. Growing up Sunni Arab was no fun. A later interviewee described his life growing up under American occupation: He couldn’t go […]
Den nya framtiden: 135 jobb på två år
”In the past two a half years, I’ve probably had about 135 contracts,” said David Pena. Most of them last between one and three days. ”It’s a bit tiresome not to ever have anything stable.” 135 jobs in two-and-a-half years: the plight of Spain’s new working poor (Guardian, 18 dec 2015) Guardian om framtidens arbetsmarknad. […]
Demokratisera tekniken
Jag har ett problem med ”hackathons” – när de används som någon sorts snabbfix för alla möjliga verksamheter. Syftet är säkert ofta gott. Men i praktiken innebär de som regel att man samlar ihop ett gäng som kan utveckla, som på 24 timmar antas kunna lösa våra problemen eller utmaningar – ofta utan att ha […]
Hur SAP drev Target Canada i backen
”Jag kommer ihåg att jag ville kräkas”.
Nej, it ökar inte produktiviteten.
Tyler Cowen i New York Times: Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us From a Productivity Slowdown
Labour in the on-demand economy
Oj. Här skulle man varit med. Konferensen Labour in the on-demand economy, ordnat av Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) i Bryssel i november. Frågor som diskuterades var Will we all end up self-employed if digital platforms continue to spread? What are the working conditions of digital workers? Who are they? Do they use platforms […]
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