Transcript
  • 00:00    |    
    Initial credits
  • 00:06    |    
    Introduction by Christopher Lingle
  • 01:21    |    
    Impact of technology in history
    • Technological advances
    • Self-driving cars
    • Microtechnology
    • 3D Printing and the effects on China
    • Digital currency
    • Block chain technology and human freedom
  • 09:48    |    
    Perceptions of the technological future
    • Dystopian future
    • Political instability
    • Choice control and technology
    • Job polarisation
    • Optimistic future
    • Ideas and scarcity
    • Technology and productivity
    • Freedom as the capacity for dignity
    • Productivity and income
    • Meaningful jobs
  • 28:23    |    
    Relationship between the use of robots and job losses
  • Optimistic projections in technology and employment
  • 29:55    |    
    Sources of job losses
    • Globalisation
    • Market value and economic growth
    • Resistance to job losses and economic growth
    • Displacing work and jobs
    • Optimistic projections
    • Industrialisation of goods and the search of uniqueness
    • Self-employment
  • 40:18    |    
    Robot´s impact on productivity
  • 41:16    |    
    Labor productivity growth
    • "Sharing" economy
    • Example of Amazon
    • Information costs
    • Example of Uber
  • 49:29    |    
    Technology and demography
  • 52:16    |    
    Ray Kurzweil`s theory
    • Technology, freedom and repression
    • Income distribution
  • 58:32    |    
    Final credits


Accelerating Technological Change: Gauging Impacts on Humanity and Economies

New Media  | 22 de septiembre de 2015  | Vistas: 57

Our lives are being transformed by technology in every way possible. In this video, Chistopher Lingle explain how the human progress has been accelerated by technological change throughout the years. He analyses the impact of the technological advances in the humanities and economics, and its positive and negative aspects. He also shares his perceptions in the technological future in our daily lives.



 

 

 


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