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Inside the Digital Society: A world without work?
This week, I’ll comment on a new view of long-term employment and unemployment in the digital age, from Oxford economist Daniel Susskind. A World Without Work, he calls it. I’ll agree with his core arguments but challenge the optimism of his conclusion.
Inside the Digital Society: Everything changes, everything stays the same
Two things are clear: how much has changed in terms of the technology and how little’s changed in public discourse.
Inside the Digital Society: A phone is not a phone
Words change their meaning over time – but the words we use have lasting impacts on the ways in which we see things. This week I’m asking what we mean when we talk about the “telephone”.
