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Oct
25
2011

"A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "

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  • The authors are not the only ones recently to point to the job fallout from technology. In the current issue of the McKinsey Quarterly, W. Brian Arthur, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, warns that technology is quickly taking over service jobs, following the waves of automation of farm and factory work.
  • John Maynard Keynes warned of a “new disease” that he termed “technological unemployment,” the inability of the economy to create new jobs faster than jobs were lost to automation.
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Feb
17
2011

" I saw the future of analytics last night, and that future was fast.


How fast?
Fast enough for Watson to jump ahead by a few thousand dollars, before Brad Rutter (and the audience) caught their breath and finally caught up.

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  • Watson doesn’t “know” anything – at least not in the same way that we know things. But we can feed it raw data from our own vast stores of knowledge and experience.
  • With every advance in technology comes a corresponding advance in our own capabilities. Watson can reveal insights about our business and our world that we can’t arrive at on our own
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Feb
12
2011

"Je ne vais essayer de faire qu’une seule chose dans ce texte, commenter et expliciter la phrase suivante :

» les technologies relationnelles produisent des relations grammatisées « "

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  • Le concept de grammatisation permet de définir des époques et des techniques qui apparaissent et qui ne disparaissent jamais (en aucun cas l’informatique ne fait disparaître la lecture et l’écriture, c’est au contraire une archi-lecture qui change les conditions de la lecture et de l’écriture).
  • Aujourd’hui, nous sommes dans un stade du devenir algorithmique qui se caractérise par le fait, tout à fait stupéfiant, que l’on peut écrire pour des « lecteurs » qui ne sont plus des hommes mais des machines
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