by Tom Austin | September 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
My most recent post on the social and moral obligations of the IT industry has apparently generated zero comment. Cynic that I am, I would ordinarily assume no one cares. Perhaps David Autor’s piece on the Brooking Institution site will generate some dialog. In the full PDF, he talks about the role of technology in [...]
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by Tom Austin | September 14, 2010 | 10 Comments
It was the early 1960s and as an inquisitive 8th grader, I had to naively ask, at a lecture at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Grand Army Plaza Branch “…So if computers are of value because they remove the need for people to perform certain jobs, what will those people do for work?” As I recall, [...]
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