Tag: Power
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Labor vs. AI
Automation creates a temporary rent for whoever controls the remaining bottleneck. Whether workers keep that rent is a power question, not a technology question. ChatGPT summary of this paper on automation and wages. And I would add: The firm is seeking to get rid of human workers as much as possible. So once that high…
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The World Is Eating Software – The software bubble. Also commentary on power steering.
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🗂 I went to a Skookum Tech Talk and learned how Duke Energy is staying on top of all things tech – and what that means for your energy services
Doing software better at the south east’s largest power company. www.charlotteagenda.com/97827/sko…
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Link: How Tech Companies Became a Political Force
“When tech leaders prophesy a utopia of connectedness and freely flowing information, they do so as much out of self-interest as belief. Rather than a decentralized, democratic public square, the internet has given us a surveillance state monopolized by a few big players. That may puzzle technological determinists, who saw in networked communications the promise…
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Link: Tolerating distraction
“The modern anxiety about distraction betrays a good deal about us. Insofar as we associate attention with power and control, it reflects our fears of losing both in an increasingly unpredictable cultural and natural climate. We also find ourselves living in an economy where we pay for cultural goods with our attention, so it makes…
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Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
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Interest from new places in Power chips
It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” cloud people. Interest from new places in Power chips
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Betting against IBM
Indeed, the numbers may back him up—cloud computing sure seems to be squeezing the vendor’s hardware business. The most recent evidence is clear: In Q3 2013, IBM’s systems revenue fell 19 percent, with its Power line falling 38 percent, System x sliding 18 percent and storage falling 11 percent. Among its hardware platforms, only System…


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