|
Automakers have made huge strides toward producing conventional cars that can drive themselves in select situations.
|
A new book, The Butterfly Defect, both advances the case for globalization and warns of daunting systemic” risks that come with it.
|
Brian Chesky, one of the co-founders of Airbnb.com, shares his views about the emerging sharing economy.
|
Document Coin will rely on personal reputation to keep all transactions in order.
|
Economic mobility is alive and well for Americans who pursue technical or practical training.
|
Thanks to artificial intelligence, machines are getting better at understanding our speech and detecting and reflecting our emotions.
|
The fact that thousands of people can easily support something they find worthwhile indicates a shift in power.
|
It’ll be like a vending machine-but for mattresses.
|
At first glance, the U.S job picture continues to improve, but there is a more sobering reality behind the headline numbers.
|
Government officials are trying to put limits on the harshest part-time employment scheduling practices.
|
Are the start-ups in Brooklyn’s burgeoning artisan economy generating more jobs?
|
For the first time in U.S. history, the next generation may not be better off than their parents.
|
The value of this information to our society far exceeds its cost – and not just because the price tag is shockingly low.
|
People are opening their wallets more this summer– but that extra cash isn’t going to margaritas and beach excursions.
|
Apprenticeship-that age-old worker-training model that pairs on-the-job training with classroom instruction-just may be the solution.
|
At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, doctors are just as likely to store iPads in their white coat pockets as stethoscopes.
|
In the recent years, startups based on the idea of sharing one’s resources – like a spare bedroom, a comfy couch or a car – have exploded onto the scene. Yet before these peer-to-peer startups and sharing economy were a thing, there was Zipcar.
|
Start-ups, including Simple and Moven, are battling it out with traditional banks for tech-savvy customers. They offer all of the basic services of a bank account-deposits, bill pay, savings-without overdraft and maintenance fees.
|
Job training plays a curious role in American politics. On the one hand, nothing is less controversial than calls for a better-skilled workforce. On the other hand, over the years federal training initiatives have attracted a-somewhat deserved-reputation as a backwater of inefficient spending and unaccountable programs. But on Wednesday the notoriously unproductive Congress has passed a compromise Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
|
Brian Janezic, 27, was in the equipment room of one of the two Auto Wash Express self-service locations he owns in Tucson, going through his cleaning supplies and vending machine items to determine what to reorder, when it hit him. We have machines that automatically size and wash a car
|
The classroom looked like a call center. Long tables were divided by partitions into individual work stations, where students sat at computers. At one of the stations, a student was logged into software on a distant server, working on math problems at her own pace.
|
While many of the technologies will indeed make it easier for us to live in the future, but what about the side effects and the impacts of these technologies on our society, it’s fabric and the economy at large.
|
So, with the help of VolunteerMatch and LinkedIn, you have a (free!) tool at your disposal for recruiting awesome skilled volunteers to support your nonprofit with important, high-impact projects.
|
Universities are not always the most welcoming places for student innovation, yet so many of the biggest tech success stories got their start on college campuses. As institutions that are home to cutting-edge developers of technology, universities have a responsibility to be more responsive to the needs of student innovators and researchers. It is time to get reform underway, fast.
|
There have been moments in history where the invention of new technology has completely rewired the way our society lives and works. The printing press, radio, television, mobile phones and the Internet are among these. In the coming decades, we will see the greatest revolution yet, as billions of people connect to the Internet for the first time.
|
If you could propose one change in American policy, society or culture to revive prosperity and self-confidence, what would it be and why?
|
Google CEO Larry Page was asked how society should deal with unemployment that may arise from technological advances.
|
Coaches know that there is nothing more dangerous for a sports team than retreating into passivity out of fear of making a mistake. Whether it is because of a desire to sit on a lead or because of nerves following a setback, failing to advance aggressively is almost always a strategic error
|
Today’s polarized debates about the role of government often boil down to a single issue: the size of government compared with the size of the overall economy, as measured in gross domestic product.
|
We are surrounded with a class of mobile devices that are eight years out of date, and predate the iPhone entirely. These relics are everywhere we go, affecting our daily lives in countless ways.
|
The labor market remains much weaker than the last time the unemployment rate stood at 6.1 percent, just before Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008. The difference is shadow unemployment
|
People and computers are coming together in all kinds of interesting ways these days.
|
It makes some sense that young people might work less than their older counterparts. They are figuring out their lives, going in and out of school and making more short-term plans.
