Posts for the Topic trade-offs

AI, you and your work

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 by Cameron Shelley

The adoption of computers has profoundly impacted work. It gave rise to a new class of laborer, e.g., the "knowlege worker". It also replaced certain kinds of work, e.g., through automation. Trade-offs of this type are a normal result of technological changes.

Currently, artificial intelligence is assuming a greater role in work. Three recent article illustrate this trend and the sorts of trade-offs that come with it.

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Pokémon Goes on

Monday, July 25, 2016 by Cameron Shelley

Pokémon Go is hard to avoid. Players wander the highways and byways, and the halls of academe, collecting Squirtles and the like.

Like any broadly adopted technological phenomenon, the game comes with trade-offs, that is, features that work to the advantage of some and disadvantage of others. As ever, opinions may differ about what exactly those are.

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