- Why we need to plan for a future without jobs (Vox) "When driverless trucks are manufactured at scale, which will happen far sooner than many realize (as soon as five years), America’s 3.5 million truck drivers will be dispensable. What is true of the freight industry will be true of many others. We will enter what the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson called 'an era of technological unemployment,' in which machines render human labor useless and inefficient."
BUSINESS:
- IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money for It (NYT) "IBM does not report financial results for Watson separately. But the securities research arm of the Swiss bank UBS estimates that Watson may generate $500 million in revenue this year and could grow rapidly in the years ahead, possibly hitting nearly $6 billion by 2020 and almost $17 billion by 2022."
- How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More (NYT)
ENTERTAINMENT:
- With Idols in Ranks, South Korean Army Steps to a K-Pop Beat (NYT) "In South Korea, where every able-bodied man 18 to 35 years old must complete a 21-month stint in the armed forces, the rules make no exceptions for pop idols, no matter how much their fans may miss them and how much income they stand to lose while enlisted. And in a nation where powerful talent agencies routinely recruit new singers and dancers to create pop groups, there is a constant stream of celebrities eligible for military duty."
HEALTH:
- Vacations Are Good for Workers and Their Employers. Why Don’t We Take Them? (Slate) "According to Project: Time Off, Americans leave 658 million vacation days on the table each year. In 2015, Americans took an average of 16.2 days of vacation each year, compared to the 20.3 days we used to take off before the year 2000."
LONG READS:
- War Goes Viral (The Atlantic)
NATIONAL SECURITY:
- The Growing Menace From North Korea (Ozy) "In the last few years, though, a series of events and developments has moved the isolated state up near the top of the U.S. 'nightmare list.' First, the North’s ability to project military power far beyond its borders has grown, dangerously. Second, its leader is not just implacably hostile to the United States — he is also much more volatile and unpredictable than his predecessors."
- ‘Band-Aid on a bullet wound’: What America’s new war looks like in Afghanistan’s most violent province (WaPo) "The future of the U.S. role in Afghanistan after a decade and a half of war has received little attention in the presidential campaign and debates. But the next administration will be bequeathed a strategy that is doing 'just enough to lose slowly,' said Douglas Ollivant, a senior national-security-studies fellow at the New America Foundation."
BUSINESS:
- IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money for It (NYT) "IBM does not report financial results for Watson separately. But the securities research arm of the Swiss bank UBS estimates that Watson may generate $500 million in revenue this year and could grow rapidly in the years ahead, possibly hitting nearly $6 billion by 2020 and almost $17 billion by 2022."
- How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More (NYT)
ENTERTAINMENT:
- With Idols in Ranks, South Korean Army Steps to a K-Pop Beat (NYT) "In South Korea, where every able-bodied man 18 to 35 years old must complete a 21-month stint in the armed forces, the rules make no exceptions for pop idols, no matter how much their fans may miss them and how much income they stand to lose while enlisted. And in a nation where powerful talent agencies routinely recruit new singers and dancers to create pop groups, there is a constant stream of celebrities eligible for military duty."
HEALTH:
- Vacations Are Good for Workers and Their Employers. Why Don’t We Take Them? (Slate) "According to Project: Time Off, Americans leave 658 million vacation days on the table each year. In 2015, Americans took an average of 16.2 days of vacation each year, compared to the 20.3 days we used to take off before the year 2000."
LONG READS:
- War Goes Viral (The Atlantic)
NATIONAL SECURITY:
- The Growing Menace From North Korea (Ozy) "In the last few years, though, a series of events and developments has moved the isolated state up near the top of the U.S. 'nightmare list.' First, the North’s ability to project military power far beyond its borders has grown, dangerously. Second, its leader is not just implacably hostile to the United States — he is also much more volatile and unpredictable than his predecessors."
- ‘Band-Aid on a bullet wound’: What America’s new war looks like in Afghanistan’s most violent province (WaPo) "The future of the U.S. role in Afghanistan after a decade and a half of war has received little attention in the presidential campaign and debates. But the next administration will be bequeathed a strategy that is doing 'just enough to lose slowly,' said Douglas Ollivant, a senior national-security-studies fellow at the New America Foundation."
NEWS:
- How Mike Flynn Became America’s Angriest General (Politico)
- Is the Self-Driving Car Un-American? (NY Mag)
- How Mike Flynn Became America’s Angriest General (Politico)
- Is the Self-Driving Car Un-American? (NY Mag)
- Donald Trump and the G.O.P.: The Party of Lincoln, Reagan and, Perhaps, Extinction (NYT)
BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:
- How to Hack Your Hangover (Ozy)
BOTTOM OF THE NEWS:
- How to Hack Your Hangover (Ozy)
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