The Digital Revolution: Great for Zuckerbergs, Bad for Jobs (Not the Steve Kind) | Motherboard
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The Digital Revolution: Great for Zuckerbergs, Bad for Jobs (Not the Steve Kind)
Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Saturday, May 21, 2011
Internet companies are being bought for billions. We’re living in the future. So why aren’t wemaking more jobs? Because, as Tyler Cowen argues in his new book, The Great Stagnation– and as a look around your room proves – many of the easy inventions have been made (for better or worse) decades ago. And those things we were supposed to have by now – hoverboards, trips to other planets, jetpacks, even nanotech and gene therapy – haven’t left the jet plane station.
Not everyone agrees with Cowen’s story, like MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson: the problem isn’t that we’re not innovating, says the economist, but that we’re not able to keep up with how fast we’re innovating. The future is here – it’s just that not everyone has 3D-printers. Or, we’re not sure how to deal with robots taking our jobs. Or we just don’t know how to be productive anymore when we have 72 tabs open.
Entertaining debate. Meanwhile we lost another 409,000
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