04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
The Population Must Increase Education to Stay Ahead of T...
...the relative demand for skilled labor is closely correlated with advances in technology, particularly digital technologies. Hence, the moniker “skill-biased technical change,” or SBTC. There are two distinct components to recent SBTC. Technologies like robotics, numerically controlled machines, computerized inventory control, and automatic transcription have been substituting for routine tasks, displacing those workers. Meanwhile other technologies like data visualization, analytics, h...
1 As people are automated out of jobs, society must increase their educations in order to keep them on top of the machines.
01 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
We Need a Shared Naturalist Religion
We have desperately to find our
way back to human values. I would even say to religion. There is nothing
supernatural, in my mind. Nature is my religion, and it's enough for me… What I
mean is: We need some widely shared view of the place of Man in the Universe. 1 
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notesNobel Prize winner argues that we need a shared, naturalistic view of our place in the Universe.
