Kentaro Toyama
@kentarotoyama
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Author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology; Assoc Prof at Univ of Michigan School of Information
Joined May 2010
Potential silver lining in the coming AI job apocalypse:
theconversation.com
As artificial intelligence technology becomes more capable, it threatens more types of jobs – like lawyers, bureaucrats and managers. What social upheaval will happen if those people can’t find work?
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RT @Aoyama_book: 外山健太郎さん 松本裕さん 訳『テクノロジーは貧困を救わない』(みすず書房) が入荷しています。単純なテクノロジー礼賛の罠を超え、人間の心の問題に焦点を当てた、貧困問題解決への筋道を提示します。(山下) .
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If they'd only share the proceeds, you could almost cheer for these folks. #DigitalRobinHood
www.nytimes.com
A criminal ring is diverting as much as $5 million in advertising revenue a day in a scheme to show video ads to phantom internet users.
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Couldn't have said it better! "Screens In Schools Are a $60 Billion Hoax" Nicholas Kardaras @TIME
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Trying to nudge myself away from these things, little by little. Not easy to change a lifetime of habit. #umsibookclub.
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Instead, my own more selfish interests (publishing! interesting new challenge! more research!) distracted me. #umsibookclub.
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Many of the projects that I've worked on could have had more impact, if I had focused on it. #umsibookclub.
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Some of us will become global leaders, so important for us all to think like that! :-) #umsibookclub.
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If global leaders thought that way, world would be a different place, even with no other change. #umsibookclub.
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If I have impact on 100 people, it means any increase in my own H, M, & W impacts those 100. #umsibookclub.
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If I have impact on 10 people, it means any increase in my own H, M, & W impacts those 10. #umsibookclub.
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Mass social change is about a critical mass of citizens becoming better versions of themselves. @umsibookclub.
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Similarly, becoming a good, productive citizen of your country requires something no no technology can short-cut. #umsibookclub.
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Everyone can play music using technology, but becoming a true musician requires something no technology can short-cut. #umsibookclub.
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