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In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist James Suzman asks whether we might learn to live like our ancestors did—that is, to value free time over money.

Heslehust has been exploring. will i be replaced by a robot? warnings that robots are coming for ourjobs is not new. in the 19305 for ourjobs is not new. in the 1930s the economistjohn maynard keys talked of a new disease that he called technological unemployment. what we will see more and more is how humans and robots will interact and build on each other very much a combination and a collaboration between the human and the machine. ——john maynard keynes. abs, human and the machine. -- john...

يتمثل تهديد أبطأ في أن السكان، الذين اعتادوا على الحصول "أوتوماتيكيا" على الخدمات التي يعتمدون عليها، سيفقدون تدريجيا قدرتهم على الصمود أمام "الصدمات"، الطبيعية منها والمصطنعة. فبعد أن فقدوا ذاكرتهم حول الكيفية التي كانت تُـدار بها الأمور في الماضي، ولأنهم لا يعرفون إلا الق...

The VCT sector has a chance to back quality businesses, writes Andrew Wolfson - particularly if they are willing to manage early-stage risk

A TV adaptation of Two Hands from Gregor Jordan, plus new dramas on Lawyer X and a haunting in Surry Hills are amongst new TV drama projects funded by Screen Australia. Screen Australia’s Head of Development Nerida Moore said, “Screen Australia is really proud to be supporting this impressive mix of projects. This includes fresh genre-bending comedies Home and Our Haunt, and beautiful romantic drama 10 Moments that will bring together 10 chapters from a great team of exciting creative v...

British Library releases vast trove of digitised 19th-century newspapers to bring stories of fugitives to life Little is yet known of Bussa, the man behind the largest slave revolt on Barbados in 1816, but information about his life before this uprising could well lie in the columns of contemporary island newspapers. So too may further clues about what happened to Benebah, a pregnant black woman who stood up to a police officer on the island in 1834, after slavery had officially been abolished....

Il termina sa carrière comme chef de guerre. Une assemblée de huguenots tenue à La Rochelle en 1621 marque le début d’une nouvelle guerre de religion qui se terminera en 1626. On ne sait si Montchrestien était protestant depuis sa jeunesse ou s’il a adhéré à ce moment à la Réforme, mais il s’engage avec détermination dans la bataille. Il obtient le rang de capitaine et conduit des troupes au combat, avec enthousiasme et courage, mais sans succès. Replié avec quelques hommes d...

British Library releases vast trove of digitised 19th-century newspapers to bring stories of fugitives to life Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica in 1891. Photograph: Caribbean Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica in 1891. Photograph: Caribbean Photo Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Sun 18 Jul 2021 04.30 EDT Little is yet known of Bussa, the man behind the largest slave revolt on Barbados in 1816, but information about his life before this uprising could well lie in the columns of...

A Japan, the country that gave us the word “karoshi” for “death from overwork,” is thinking about introducing an optional four-day workweek. The idea has also come up in Iceland, New Zealand, Spain and other places. It’s in fact so obvious, some wise people in the past would be gobsmacked to learn that we’re only just starting to talk about it now. One such sage was the economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1930, just as the Great Depression was threatening his and the world’s pr...

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