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The division of labor between humans and computer systems has changed along both technical and human dimensions. Technically, there has been a shift from technologies of automation, the aim of which was to disallow human intervention at nearly all points in the system, to technologies of heteromation” that push critical tasks to end users as indispensable mediators.
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Judging by the Forbes 400 list, the richest people in America have been getting richer very quickly. In 1982, the first year of the list, there were only 13 billionaires on it. A net worth of $75 million was enough to earn a spot.
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The only point of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable, said J K Galbraith. Economists blame most of the US’s 1 per cent shrinkage in the first quarter of this year on the harsh winter.
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Tereza Sedgwick is seeing the economy from the bottom up, where the fastest-growing job in America is also one of the hardest.
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Law schools are in crisis, facing their most substantial decline in enrollment in decades, if not in the history of legal education.
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Openness to the global economy has gained many detractors as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis and subsequent recession. People are unnerved by the volatility of capital flows and worried that their jobs may be outsourced. Yet more countries than ever before are playing on a global stage–and benefiting economically as a result.
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Some newly minted college graduates struggle to find work. Others accept jobs for which they feel overqualified. Student debt, meanwhile, has topped $1 trillion.
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A new film series from Morgan Spurlock and the Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen boils down to this: It’s the economy, stupid, and many Americans are stupid about the economy.
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The most significant revolution of the 21st century so far is not political. It is the information technology revolution.
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Online digital platforms are enabling individuals and small businesses to act like large ones, connecting with suppliers and customers wherever they may reside.
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Digital technologies are once again transforming global value chains and, with them, the structure of the global economy. What do businesses, citizens, and policymakers need to know as they scramble to keep up?
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In San Francisco, Teresa Goines is breaking down deeply entrenched cycles of poverty and crime, one bowl of peanut butter stew at a time. Old Skool Café, the 1940’s supper club she started, gives jobs to at-risk and former gang youth.
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I grew up in the age of Tinker Toys and Erector Sets. Both were meant to inspire me to be a maker instead of a consumer.
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Two months ago, Derek Thompson walked readers through the results of a huge new survey by the Pew Research Center on Millennials and their attitudes and opinions.
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Over the past few years, Jon Bruner, the editor-at-large at publisher O’Reilly Media and former data editor at Forbes, started noticing how many of his technologist friends in the software industry were taking a keen interest in the hardware world.
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It was in 1931 that the historian James Truslow Adams coined the phrase the American dream.”
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American businesses are driving economic growth and creating good jobs through exporting.
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Economists and policymakers are worried about not only the pace of the recovery but also our long-run prospects for economic growth.
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Income inequality has risen considerably in the United States and across the entire advanced world.
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A new White House report on big data” and privacy includes several recommendations that could help protect the personal information of individuals from warrantless searches and abusive marketing practices.
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Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times recently conducted a series of interviews with seven people who helped provide a glimpse into the not-too-distant future.
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Thanks to advances in technology, we may soon revisit a question raised four centuries ago: Are there things we should try not to know?
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A decade ago, Wikipedia and open-source software were treated as mere curiosities in business circles. Today, these innovations represent a core challenge to how we have thought about property and contract, organization theory and management, over the past 150 years.
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One year ago today, President Obama signed an executive order that made open and machine-readable data the new default for government information.
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More than 90% of hospitals are currently in possession of certified EHR technology; more than 40% have the ability to send and receive electronic information to and from external providers.
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What if someone had already figured out the answers to the world’s most pressing policy problems, but those solutions were buried deep in a PDF, somewhere nobody will ever read them?
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Health care startups are increasingly using the Internet to fill gaps” in the health care system by offering affordably priced
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Can downloading an app, and describing your symptoms to a doctor you’ll never meet, take the place of an office visit? Can sending a selfie” of your sore throat help diagnose strep?
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One-third of the triple aim focuses on reducing the cost of healthcare, and the adoption of EHR and health IT systems has a major role to play in achieving that and the other two-thirds of aims by providing an infrastructure for quality improvement and efficiency.
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Electronics companies think the Affordable Care Act will push us to embrace technology to track our health and lifestyles.
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The way some emergency doctors are using Glass highlights the promise, and the limitations, of wearable technology.
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Colleges are churning out entrepreneurial-minded students, but there’s no evidence of benefits yet.
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Business dynamism is the process by which firms continually are born, fail, expand, and contract, as some jobs are created, others are destroyed, and others still are turned over.
