How Sharing Platforms Empower the Agricultural Industry
As smaller farms encroach upon market share, consumers will be provided access to higher quality products, while those who provide those products will have access to previously out-of-reach capital. The key to their success is shared resources – a demand increasingly enabled by web and mobile platforms.
For the first time in its history, technological progress is creating more jobs for computers than for people
“Economic progress ultimately signifies the ability to produce things at a lower financial cost and with less labor than in the past,” says Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. As a result, he says, increasing effectiveness goes hand in hand with rising unemployment, and the unemployed merely become “human waste.”
Likewise, in their book “Race Against the Machine,” Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both scholars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), argue that, for the first time in its history, technological progress is creating more jobs for computers than for people.
This week, the folks at iStrategyLabs produced and launched an infographic for Mobile Future highlighting the unprecedented growth in mobile data traffic and what it means for consumers. (via Mobile Data Growth and What it Means For You)
“ I think what YouTube enabled was the democratisation of the online video experience – people controlled not only the creation but the distribution of their content in front of an audience at a scale that was meaningful. I continue to see YouTube be a leader in that space, but at the same time, with video standards on the horizon, there are going to be a lot more opportunities in the online video space.”
Chad Hurley on the Future of Delicious and More - The Next Web
Chad Hurley will be speaking at The Next Web Conference 2012 in Amsterdam, which takes place on 26-27 April. Book your ticket today: http://thenextweb.paydro.net/ See you there!
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