Evidently written in 1963, a year before McLuhan was to publish The Medium is the Message, this important article brings together in one place a number of the ideas that would appear in his most important book a year later: technology as human extensions, the Narcissus myth, psychic numbness that derives from our extensions, our unawareness […]
Too Much of the Economy is Powerless
” We define market power as “the ability to skew market outcomes in one’s own interest, without creating value or serving the public good.” ECONOMIC INCLUSIONECONOMY & GROWTH By Marshall Steinbaum Today, the Roosevelt Institute released Powerless: How Lax Antitrust and Concentrated Market Power Rig the Economy Against American Workers, Consumers, and Communities, a report I wrote […]
A Stanford researcher says we shouldn’t start working full time until age 40
“We need a new model,” Carstensen says of the current norms around career pacing. The current one “doesn’t work, because it fails to recognize all the other demands on our time. People are working full-time at the same time they’re raising children. You never get a break. You never get to step out. You never […]
Basic Income, Job Guarantees, and Invisible Labor
This is a 22 min read about how we will value our values in the emerging Digital Environment This is a very preliminary sort of ramble, because my ideas are still in a pretty early stage, and I’m quite likely to be wrong about several things. But it’s good to explore these ideas publicly, hear […]
Work is Interaction
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again. -André Gide In an economy, people essentially produce goods and services for people. Companies are theoretically intermediary organizational forms that arrange the development, production and delivery processes. The digital world we live in today […]