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March 19, 2021 4:40 pm V&A Dundee – club culture exhibition V&A Dundee’s Night Fever exhibition will be one of the first shows to open in the UK, with Scotland coming out of lockdown earlier than the rest on 1 May. Appropriate too, that it will explore a world that most of us haven’t seen for more than a year: clubbing. Night Fever will delve into iconic clubs from New York, Paris, Florence, Manchester, London, Bierut and Berlin – as well as those in towns and cities across Scotland. ...

Charlotte Perriand retrospective announced by London’s Design Museum Charlotte Perriand retrospective announced by London’s Design Museum London’s Design Museum presents ‘Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life’, an exhibition opening in June 2021 shining the spotlight on one of the most iconic creators of the 20th century An image of Charlotte Perriand on the chaise longue basculante B306, which she designed in 1929. The Design Museum announced a vast retrospective of the French architec...

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Fact prices can easy to go into the millions as will discover later in this show the state of the art is this weeks topic here on made in germany few art and design movements of the modern era have left such an impression as germanys bauhaus the group has been in france and designers and architects for one hundred years now the bows motto was form follows function they create as practical pieces clean crisp lines and some of these classics are best sellers to this day. some ideas trigger a revol...

Prices can easily go into the millions as will discover later in this show the state of the art is this weeks topic here on made in germany few art and design movements of the modern era have left such an impression as germanys bauhaus the group has been in france and designers and architects for a hundred years now the bows model was form follows function they create is practical pieces clean crisp lines and some of these classics are bestsellers to this day. some ideas trigger a revolution. ma...

Actually driving inequality, bringing some people along with it and leaving others behind. explain that concept. >> sure. well, after the first machine age, the technology is automating a lot tasks that humans used to do. it was mostly muscle power automated of humans and animals. now its brain power, mental tasks. in many cases, that means that jobs like routine information processing work are being replaced, and the income is being concentrated by a few innovators who invent, say, the next tur...

>> oftentimes better more accurately. dont make the same kind of mistakes. copies can be made for virtually 0 cost. each copy is a perfect replica of the original, each of them can be transmitted anywhere in the world almost instantaneously. theyre free, perfect, and instant and thats characteristics we didnt have in the first machine age. they lead to some weird and wonderful economics. >> and in eriks example of tax preparation two out of the three important constituencies are better off. firs...

Second machine age replaces brain power. >> thats right. the first machine age was all about relaxing the limits on human muscle power, animal muscle power, steam engine, internal combustion engine, allowed us to move the world, manipulate the world better than before. but the second machine age is much more about relaxing the constraints on cognitive power, mental power, and we expect that just as the first machine age this is going to lead to an inflection point in human economic progress. >> ...

If weve reached a point in society where setting a u.s. census statistic gets you accused of racism and stereotyping were not going to learn anything. anyone can achieve at a high level and were hoping that some people might find something useful in our book to achieve what they want to achieve in their lives. >> jed, aim my, pleasure having you on. >> thanks for having us. >> up next, why the new machine age is great for economic growth, great for innovation, but it might be bad for you unless ...

No emotion, does the same calculation every time and doesnt sleep. >> in many cases hes right. that the -- in the first machine age we replaced muscle power it was important to have a control system for that, that meant having a human. as we augment and replace mental power its not as clear whether humans will be a substitute or a complement for the new machines and in many cases, its the whole operation does run smoothly without humans. but i want to be clear -- >> give an example before we get...