Hello! It has been a while since we posted a Five Interesting things piece. And today is a new idea as well–themed. As the coronavirus continues to reshape how we live and work, we are starting to see the some ideas about the future emerge. Today’s scan hits all have to do with a possible…
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A few months back, Facebook came under public scrutiny about how it curated its trending topic feeds, facing allegations that the editors of trending topics were skewing the results against “conservative” news stories. In response, Facebook said it would review how trending topics were curated, and as a result it switched to an all-algorithm-generated trending…
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The threat of automation to jobs is one that generates a lot of media coverage these days, and there is a lot of anxiety over employment, job quality, and how automation (both software and hardware) could impact livelihoods. A November 2015 report from McKinsey found that of 750 jobs surveyed, 45% of the activities people…
DetailsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Futures of Work: New Report Illuminates Global Opportunities and Disruptions WASHINGTON, DC, January 14, 2016—Workers everywhere will be affected by accelerating disruptions to the world of work—yet people in different economic positions will be impacted in very different ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight…
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Frederic Bastiat, author of The Seen and Unseen, was one the first economists to explore the interaction between policy and and unintended consequences: In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only…
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