Tag Archives: automation
Lilly Irani, “Justice for ‘Data Janitors’”
Irani reviews Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s book The Second Machine Age, in which they argue, among other things, for a basic income as a solution to increasing automation and technology.
» Read moreMistbreaker News, “Is Basic Income a Viable Concept in the Automated World?”
In this post, ‘newsroom’ of the Mistbreaker news argues current strand to further automation urges us to consider BIG seriously. Mistbreaker News, “Is Basic Income a Viable Concept in the Automated World”, November 13th, 2014.
» Read moreRIEGER, Frank (2012), ‘An Automation Dividend for all: Robots should secure our pensions’
This opinion piece was published by the prestigious German daily ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’ (18 May 2012). Frank Rieger, a speaker of the German Chaos Computer Club, discusses an upcoming revolution and the fact that we are able to control its consequences: if robots and algorithms replace us in the labour market, they should also substitute us as taxpayers. The current
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