By Derek Thompson, Jan 23 2014What Jobs Will the Robots Take? Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in "a decade or two," according to new research. The question is: Which half? "...Frey and Osborne project that the next wave of computer progress will continue to shred human work where it already has: manufacturing, administrative support, retail, and transportation. Most remaining factory jobs are "likely to diminish over the next decades," they write. Cashiers, counter clerks, and telemarketers are similarly endangered."
Computer experts (?) believe supermodel Kate Moss is one of dozens of celebrities who have paid thousands to play down references to their troubled pasts on the world wide web.
This, then, may be a model for use of technology in education: Find or develop technology that allows us to strengthen the basic triangle between teacher, student, and ideas.
Graeme Paton in Telegraph: A £50 million scheme to replace school blackboards with "interactive whiteboards" has failed to improve children's results, a Government-backed study has found.
"I own the collection of comments on my blog, and you own the comments you've placed on my blog and all others. I should be able to back up a complete set of comments on my blog, and also back up a copy of all comments I've placed on all blogs."
When you count words rather than edits most of the content in Wikipedia does indeed come from contributors outside the core, but Wikipedia does have a lot in common with traditional publishing organizations.
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Filters are rapidly becoming a pertinent issue for developers of social media services. Aggregation platforms are in the perfect position to lead the pack.
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
"Intentionally changing climate is a way of exerting power on a global scale in a context in which relevant norms, conventions, and treaties barely exist, are highly ineffectual, or very controversial. Yet the people of the world will have their say about
As we watch Feedburner crash and burn even worse than ever before, Dave Winer has decided to put his money where his mouth is, so to speak. At the beginning of this month, he announced that he's building Feedsqueezer, a Feeburner competitor that may end up being the only viable option we'll have when it comes to feed management.
There is a striking similarity between one aspect of the two sites. The text of Knol articles uses the same font as Wikipedia. Mr. Dupont said that is simply coincidence, as it is a commonly used font.