Why Google’s Employee outrage is a Startup Opportunity
By: AngelList August 29, 2019 Google faced yet another employee protest this month—this time coming in the form of a public petition signed by nearly 15,000 Google employees—over Google’s work with the government. Employees are asking executives to commit to not servicing U.S. immigration agencies with “infrastructure, funding, or engineering resources, directly or indirectly.” As […]
Oxford Report: Technology At Work V2.0
By: Citi GPS January 26, 2016 It is a pleasure to introduce Technology at Work v2.0: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be. This report is the third in a long-term series of Citi GPS reports coproduced by Citi and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford in order to explore […]
Stanford’s AI 100 year Report
By: Stanford September, 2016 The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence, launched in the fall of 2014, is a long-term investigation of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its influences on people, their communities, and society. It considers the science, engineering, and deployment of AI-enabled computing systems. As its core activity, the Standing […]
Inequality, the Great Recession & Slow Recovery
By: Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari October 24, 2014 Rising inequality reduced income growth for the bottom 95 percent of the US personal income distribution beginning about 1980. To maintain stable debt to income, this group’s consumption-income ratio needed to decline, which did not happen through 2006, and its debtincome ratio rose dramatically, […]
Unilever threat ‘is #MeToo moment for digital advertising’
By: Mark Sweney February 12, 2018 The former UK boss of one of the world’s biggest advertising groups has said that Unilever’s threat to boycott Google and Facebook could be a pivotal moment for digital advertising, likening it to the momentum of the #MeToo movement that has put a spotlight on sexual harassment and assault. […]
Millions of jobs have disappeared
By: LinkedIn February 26, 2018 With rising automation and lowering tariffs on trade, the US manufacturing sector has seen sharp declines for decades. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after employing as much as 38% of the US workforce in the 1950s, just 9% of Americans are employed through manufacturing today — with more […]