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Archives for March, 2012


Be Afraid: Read McAfee’s “The Robots Coming for Your Job” Blog Post

by Tom Austin  |  March 23, 2012  |  Comments Off

Andy just blogged on material that relates to the excellent book he and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote last year, “Race Against The Machine“. Read the blog. Then read the book — it’s short and to the point (and reflects many of my much less widely read musings of the last few years). The video of “Big [...]

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How does your digital self reflect your personal self?

by Tom Austin  |  March 22, 2012  |  Comments Off

I’m at the Adobe Summit in Salt Lake City, listening to Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter) talking about his digital self and I’m realizing I’m somewhat conflicted about the basic question: does my digital self, as reflected on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Linked-in and a host of other much smaller sites reflect me as a person? [...]

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