Continuations

On Twitter this morning I received a link to a Guardian piece titled “In the digital economy, we’ll soon all be working for free – and I refuse” by Suzanne Moore. What caught my attention was not so much the piece itself, which has many arguments that I have been making on Continuations for some time about technology being the driving force behind income inequality and the disappearance of work. Instead I was intrigued by the “I refuse” part. There is, unfortunately, not much elaboration on t...

Yesterday I attended MIT’s Roundtable on the Digital Economy. It was a gathering convened by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of Race Against the Machine, to discuss “Work and Value in the Digital Economy.” The gathering brought together an interesting mix of academics, startups, investors (yours truly) and policy experts. I don’t have time this morning for more detailed thoughts, but I came away with a clearer grasp of some of the central questions: 1. Is work actually dimini...

I am leaving later today for a family vacation in Europe. Like last year, it turns out that I am in the middle of several business things that can’t really wait until I get back. I don’t find that to be a problem though, especially when heading to Europe. For starters, I tend to get on European time right away, which means that I have a couple of hours in the morning before everyone else gets going. As I won’t be blogging while away, this will be time completely available for work. It also he...