How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth
How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.
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The Robot Tax Fallacy: Anthropomorphizing Automation
What is the right way to tax a robot? A robot tax isn’t the same as a tax on human labor. Here’s why it’s more complicated than that.
How Gig Economy Platforms Like Uber Will Automate Human Work
How Gig Economy platforms like Uber use technology to create jobs today that they will automate and eliminate tomorrow.
The Bigger Amazon Story: How a Human Becomes an “Amabot”
When we relegate human labor to the work machines haven’t yet learned, the results can be dehumanizing.
The Automation of the Publishing Industry
An in-depth look at the automation of the publishing industry: what it’s done to businesses, to employment and what it means for the future of knowledge.
Our Antidotes to Technological Unemployment
Will our initiative and capacity for human connection be what saves us from technological unemployment in an era of intelligent machines?
Artificial Intelligence and the Next Wave of Automation in the Travel Industry
IBM’s artificial intelligence unleashes a second wave of automation in the travel industry and sets its strategy against Google and Facebook.