France To Build 621 Miles Of Solar Roads
Solar roads sound too “gee whiz” to work. But it would be terrific if they did.
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Technology and the Future of Work
Discussions of technology-driven change fail to distinguish between productivity-enhancing technology and disruptive technology.
Read more...Tax Breaks for Big Pharma on Top of Unreasonable Price Hikes
Big Pharma’s claim that it is hard pressed to find cash for R&D spending needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Does Better Internet Access Wind Up Disenfranchising Lower Income Groups?
As counterintuitive as it seems, reducing the “digital divide” may not be the plus its advocates assumed it was, if the UK experience is any guide.
Read more...Why Bitcoin is Not Disruptive
Get a cup of coffee. This is a deep dive into how Bitcoin works from a payment systems perspective, and why the failure of promoters and journalists to look at it in those terms has led them to greatly overestimate its significance.
Read more...The Death of the Professional: Are Doctors, Lawyers and Accountants Becoming Obsolete?
Is the professional about to go the way of the dodo bird?
Read more...Start-Up Governments, or Can Bureaucracies Innovate?
What makes bureaucracies innovative?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Google Sarcasm, or How I (and the Entire Industry) Make a Living
Richter describes what it’s like as a publisher to be subject to the vagaries of Google Adsense.
Read more...The Puzzle of Technical Dis-Employment and Productivity Slowdown
How can recent technical change could both be a major source of dis-employment and not be associated with productivity improvement?
Read more...The Internet of Things – Supplied or Demanded?
An intriguing comparison of how the Internet of Things is being sold in the US and Japan.
Read more...Global Tax Dodging Just One Part of Pfizer’s Corrupt Business Model
Pfizer whines about needing higher drug prices, when rather than investing, it has spent over 100% of its profits on stock buybacks and dividends.
Read more...The Future of Work and the Role of Climate Change
Consideration of climate change has been almost totally missing from discussions about the future of work. What happens when you include it?
Read more...Wolf Richter: IBM Discloses SEC Investigation, Plunges to Worst Level since 2010, Even Share Buybacks Don’t Work Anymore
IBM discovers that financial engineering bites back.
Read more...What the Steve Jobs Movie Won’t Tell You About Apple’s Success
How Steve Jobs’ successes were government sponsored enterprises.
Read more...How Much Longer Can The Oil Age Last?
Even with the cost efficiency of renewables being much higher than many realize, major energy buyers don’t act as if the oil age is ending soon.
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