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Reports from joint U.S. and EU research, the OECD, and Goldman Sachs explore the economic impacts of AI, noting that AI trends differ from previous automation eras, which reduced demand for routine middle-wage jobs but increased it for non-routine low and high-wage jobs. They think generative AI could replace a quarter of existing work, but this impact is likely to vary by sector and new jobs are likely to arise to replace them. This automation could boost labor productivity by 1.5 percent over a 10-year adoption period.
Augmented: Planners in an Era of Generative AI
planning.org
This link between smart cities and military research is highly active today. For example, a recent DARPA research program called CASCADE (Complex Adaptive System Composition and Design Environment) explicitly compares “manned and unmanned aircraft,” which “share data and resources in real time” thanks to connections over wireless networks, to the “critical infrastructure systems” of smart cities—“water, power, transportation, communications, and cyber.”
The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia
technologyreview.com
It’s so easy to endlessly delay and postpone the experiences that would so enrich our lives. We think we’re not ready. We fear we’re not prepared. We cannot stand the thought that there is one little piece of information we’re missing that, if we had it, would make all the difference. I’m here to tell you that that is no way to live your life. Information becomes knowledge—personal, embodied, verified—only when we put it to use. You gain confidence in what you know only when you know that it works. Until you do, it’s just a theory.
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
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