POOF! TECHNOLOGY JUST STOLE YOUR JOB

*1. POOF! TECHNOLOGY JUST STOLE YOUR JOB

"The productivity figures may not reflect it yet but new technology does seem more fundamentally disruptive than technologies of the past. As the idea sinks in that humans as workhorses might...be on the way out, what happens if the job market stops doing the job of providing a living wage for hundreds of millions of people? Maybe it's time to start thinking about how to provide a lot more income that isn't directly tied to a job." That kind of sounds like Socialism. But is it? In a review of articles from a few sources for only today, here are the industries that technology is impacting: theater on Broadway; music production; movie making; investing; and, of all things, even dry cleaning!. From NYT - Jobs Threatened by Machines: A Once ‘Stupid’ Concern Gains Respect and Stop the Bots From Killing Broadway and E-Trade to Introduce Robo-Advisory Service; From WaPo - Google’s computers are creating songs. Making music may never be the same.; From Ozy - Can Science Make a Movie a Guaranteed Success?; From Quartz - People cannot wait to pay $800 for a laundry-folding robot

*2. EXPLOITING SOFTWARE WEAKNESS

We live in an increasingly connected world and those connections are increasingly exploited for nefarious uses. "Today, most of the applications we rely on — Google Chrome, Microsoft, Firefox and Android — contain millions of lines of code. On average, there are 15 to 50 defects per 1,000 lines of code in delivered software. They [Governments] are willing to pay anyone who can find and exploit these weaknesses top dollar to hand them over, and never speak a word to the companies whose programmers inadvertently wrote them into software in the first place. In most cases those holes have been used for espionage, but increasingly they are being used for destruction." From NYT - Software as Weaponry in a Computer-Connected World

*3. BUILDING A BETTER WEB

The father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, appears to not be happy with the direction of his "offspring." "So on Tuesday, Mr. Berners-Lee gathered in San Francisco with other top computer scientists to discuss a new phase for the web...Today, the World Wide Web has become a system that is often subject to control by governments and corporations. So what might happen, the computer scientists posited, if they could harness newer technologies — like the software used for digital currencies, or the technology of peer-to-peer music sharing — to create a more decentralized web with more privacy, less government and corporate control, and a level of permanence and reliability?" From NYT - The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It

*4. THE RUMORS OF MY DEATH WERE GREATLY EXAGGERATED

"'We regret to inform our fans that our commissioner, Roger Goodell, has passed away. He was 57. #RIP.'" Some may have hoped it was true (sadly), but the NFL account from where the Tweet originated was hacked. Roger Goodell is alive and well. But the stream of high profile hackings continues. From NYT - Roger Goodell Is Not Dead. The N.F.L. Was Hacked.

*5. DON'T BE GOOGLE (EVIL)

That time when Mark Zuckerberg called "Lockdown" at the Facebook HQ to tackle the threat from Google+. "Zuck took it [Google+] as an existential threat comparable to the Soviets' placing nukes in Cuba in 1962." And you thought social networking was all fun and crazy cat videos... From Vanity Fair - How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook's War to Crush Google Plus

+ From FastCompany - Facebook's Race To Dominate AI - Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a vital part of scaling Facebook. Facebook wants to dominate AI and machine learning, just as it already does in social networking and instant messaging. The group's [Facebook's AI team] goals are ambitious: teaching machines common sense." Facebook is playing catch-up in AI. They are moving fast, but they trail Google.

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