I prigionieri delle fabbriche - Maila Iacovelli
Maila Iacovelli, fotografaAlessandro Leogrande, giornalista e scrittoreFabio Zayed, fotografo Il 21 maggio del 2014 Maria Baratto, operaia di 47 anni, si uccide nel piccolo appartamento in cui vive da sola ad Acerra, colpendosi più volte con un coltello all’addome. Il suo corpo rimane riverso sul pavimento per quattro giorni. Nessuno la cerca, nessuno la chiama. Maria Baratto è in cassa integrazione da sei anni, vive con 800 euro al mese. Benché se ne parli poco, in Italia esistono ancora i reparti confino, proprio come nella Fiat degli anni cinquanta, quella di Vittorio Valletta. Ai lavoratori “confinati” non è chiesto di produrre, ma di passare le giornate senza fare niente, guardando il soffitto o girandosi i pollici, fino a quando quel lento, prolungato stato di inazione non diventa una forma estrema di violenza contro la propria mente e il proprio corpo. Un caso che ne racchiude molti è quello di Mimmo Mignano, dipendente iscritto ai Cobas e trasferito a Nola.
The challenge of China as a science and technology superpower | Adam Segal | Science
The United States-China science and technology relationship is shaped by a central paradox. Reducing climate change, preventing pandemics, and developing new energy sources are all challenges that require global solutions. Moreover, the science that will be the foundation of any technological fixes is increasingly collaborative, spanning different disciplines, institutions, and geographical locations. At the same time, science and technology are an essential component of national economic competitiveness and military power. As a result, China and the US are collaborators as well as competitors for talent, new ideas, market share and prestige. The US is still the world leader in science and technology, but as a new Nesta report and others have noted, Chinese capabilities are developing rapidly. The Boston Consulting Group has named e-commerce firms Alibaba and Xiaomi Technology, a maker of mobile phone technology, as among the most innovative up-and-coming companies.
Competition at the digital edge: 'Hyperscale' businesses
Digitization is upending many core tenets of competition among industries by lowering the cost of entering markets and providing high-speed passing lanes to scale up enterprises. At the extreme are hyperscale businesses that are pushing the new rules of digitization so radically that they are challenging conventional management intuition about scale and complexity. These businesses have users, customers, devices, or interactions numbered in the hundreds of millions, billions, or more. Billions of interactions and data points, in turn, mean that events with only a one-in-a-million probability are happening many times a day. Taken individually, each of these businesses seems like a special case. After all, how many companies can be like Google, which processes around four billion searches a day; Twitter, handling 500 million tweets a day; or Alibaba, the world’s largest e-commerce market, which facilitated 254 million orders in one day? Disruption hits at high speed . . . About the authors
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TechDebate: Lethal Autonomous (“Killer”) Robots
This video is of the inaugural debate in the TechDebates on Emerging Technologies series, which focused on Lethal Autonomous "Killer" Robots. LARs are machines that can decide to kill. Such technology has the potential to revolutionize modern warfare and more. The need for understanding LARs is essential to decide whether their development and possible deployment should be regulated or banned. This TechDebate centers on the question: are LARs ethical? Debaters: Ron Arkin, Robotics Professor at Georgia Tech's College of Computing Rob Sparrow, Philosophy Professor at Monash University School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies Professor, Australia The TechDebates on Emerging Technologies is a debate series presented by the Center for Ethics and Technology (CET) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
How to Create and Schedule a Social Media Content Plan
When I can find the time to do so, I love to plan ahead. I’ll write out tomorrow’s to-do list. I’ll add ideas to our content calendar. And I’ll schedule the next day’s social media updates—or even the next week’s, if I’m feeling ambitious. Maybe some day I’ll get to the point of scheduling a month or even a year ahead! Scheduling part of your social media content in advance is well worth it. And I’ll be happy to share with you some strategies, tips, and tools that can help you get organized and get ahead with your social media sharing. 5 benefits to mapping out your social media content Social media content feels quite in-the-moment and real-time when you consider the short lifecycle of updates and the rapid way that information moves across Twitter, Facebook, and others. A solid social media schedule leaves room for real-time updates. Planning content on social media still allows for flexibility to the schedule and provides opportunities to slip in real-time engagement. Consistent cadence.
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The Pace of Technology Adoption is Speeding Up - Rita McGrath
by Rita McGrath | 10:00 AM November 25, 2013 Many people suggest that rates of new product introduction and adoption are speeding up, but is it really, across the board? The answer seems to be yes. This second graph, by Michael DeGusta of MIT’s Technology Review, presents similar results. It’s clear that in many arenas things are indeed speeding up, with more players and fewer barriers to entry.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
" The stories that we tell others and ourselves reveal who we think we are along with identifying our purpose, meaning, and worth in life. Telling personal stories publicly celebrates our life." -Bernajean Porter
A Shared Future, A Global Economy Of Haves And Servants
Editor’s note: Max Wolff is an economist and investment strategist who is the managing partner and chief economist at Manhattan Venture Partners. Previously, he has served as the chief economist at a leading financial technology and investment firm. Many high-flying companies are pushing logistics, services, and payment options to our new “sharing economy.” We see these firms and sectors as largely driven by macroeconomic trends. The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Competition has increased as global barriers and technology change have added mice into the maze more rapidly than new cheese has been introduced. Enter the “sharing economy.” Needs and people can be matched on mobile apps as never before.
