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Why Do We Work So Damn Much?
No comments on Why Do We Work So Damn Much?A few weeks ago, I listened to a very interesting podcast, Why Do We Work So Damn Much?, where podcast host, NY Times columnist Ezra Klein, interviewed anthropologist James Suzman. Suzman has devoted almost thirty years to studying and writing about the Ju’hoansi and other bushmen from the Kalahari Basin, who are among the world’s…
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“The U.S. is a middle-class nation,” says the opening sentence of A New Contract with the Middle Class, an essay by Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill that was recently published by the Brookings Institution. “Since our nation’s founding, the American Dream has always been based on an implicit understanding – a contract if you will…
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Over the past few decades, economies and societies around the world have been going through historical transformations as they transition from the industrial age of the past two centuries to a 21st century digital age. Companies – especially large, global corporations – have leveraged digital innovations to improve their productivity and competitiveness and adapt better…
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Remote work has been around for a few decades, but took off in the mid-late 1990s with the explosive growth of the Internet. There were predictions that the Internet would lead to the decline of cities, because technology was making location less relevant to our work and personal lives. Why would anyone choose to live…
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AI has emerged as the defining technology of our era, as transformative over time as the steam engine, electricity, and the Internet. While still in its early stages, AI is already reshaping the economy, society, our personal lives and the very nature of work, with much more to come as the technology and applications mature,…
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“Over the past half century, wave after wave of digital innovation has ensured that digitalization – the diffusion of digital technologies into nearly every business and workplace and pocket – has been remaking the U.S. economy and the world of work,” said the Brookings Institution in Digitalization and the American Workforce. The digitalization of everything…
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The global economy has undergone considerable change over the past few decades. Results have been mixed. On the positive side, the digital revolution has significantly improved the quality of life of billions around the world. Technology advances like the smartphone and wireless Internet, and the economic development brought about by globalization have led to the…
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The World is Getting Quietly, Relentlessly Better is the title of a recent WSJ article by its chief economics commentator Greg Ip. “If you spent 2018 mainlining misery about global warming, inequality, toxic politics or other anxieties, I’m here to break your addiction with some good news: The world got better last year, and it…
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In 2016, MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy launched its first annual Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC). The key objective of the IIC is to help create greater shared prosperity around the world by awarding over one million dollars in prizes each year to to entrepreneurs that are leveraging technology advances to reinvent the future of…
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More than ever, scientific and technological innovations touch every aspect of our lives and influence the choices we make in a wide variety of areas. A 2015 study by the Pew Research Center revealed that most Americans have a positive view of science and of the accomplishments of scientists. But, despite broadly similar views about…