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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Technology is a major driving of change and is changing very unpredictably as we see in these forecasts: Lee DeForest, the “father of radio,” said in 1926 “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.”

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Augmented Reality Is Already Improving Worker Performance

Harvard Business Review

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. Upskilling technologies, a partnership between humans and smart machines, can augment workers’ abilities, resulting in dramatically improved performance, greater safety, and higher worker satisfaction.

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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. With nearly every metropolis vying to become the next Silicon Valley, New Orleans would rather become a better version of itself: the next New Orleans.

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China's Impending Slowdown Just Means It's Joining the Big Leagues

Harvard Business Review

In the first, published in Asian Economic Papers last year, they reported a marked tendency toward slower economic growth when per capita incomes reach around $17,000 a year (in 2005 prices). annual growth, China would cross the $10,000 per capita threshhold in 2015, and $15,000 in 2020.

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The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

Harvard Business Review

The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. in 2005 to 15.8% Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs.

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A Few Unicorns Are No Substitute for a Competitive, Innovative Economy

Harvard Business Review

While 38 companies joined the unicorn ranks in the second half of 2015, only 19 made it into the club in the first half of 2016. Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses.

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What Economists Get Wrong About Measuring Productivity

Harvard Business Review

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. year from 2005-2014, with the slowdown starting well before the global financial crisis.