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www.newyorker.com
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| | | | | Matthew Hutson on technologists' warnings about the dangers of the so-called singularity, and the question of whether anything can be done to prevent it. | |
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gwern.net
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| | | | | A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples. | |
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dissidentvoice.org
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| | | | | The NSA has nothing on the monitoring tools that education technologists have developed to 'personalize' and 'adapt' learning for students in public school districts across the United States. - Jesse Irwin, Model View Culture Financialization involves a highly disciplined neoliberal landscape where state power structures and private technologies facilitate and protect the activities and interests | |
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www.alternet.org
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| | | There are troubling parallels between Trump and Icahn, who used his charity to turn a profit while enjoying massive tax savings. | ||