Kodak, Instagram, and Automation

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face... At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

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A cautionary tale of how automation is running people out of employment.

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 Who Owns the Future?
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Lanier, Jaron (2013-05-07), Who Owns the Future?, Simon & Schuster, Retrieved on 2013-05-17
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  • Folksonomies: computers


    Triples

    24 MAY 2013

     Elimination of Professional Photography

    Kodak, Instagram, and Automation > Additional Support/Evidence > No Such Thing as Professional Photographers
    A stark example of how technology and automation is virtually eliminating a profession.
    Folksonomies: automation
    Folksonomies: automation


    Schemas

    25 MAR 2013

     Automating Ourselves Out of Employment

    As we automate people out of work, how will will deal with the unemployment? The science fiction utopia of a post-scarcity society can't work in a Capitalist system. How will we deal with the fact that fewer and fewer monopolists will control all the resources and have less and less need for employees? Alternative Titles: The Post-Scarcity Distopia
    Folksonomies: employment automation
    Folksonomies: employment automation
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