James' World 2

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Banana leaves have become a sustainable alternative to plastic bags in Thailand.

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There has never been a town like the one San Francisco is becoming, a place where a single industry composed almost entirely of rich people thoroughly dominates the local economy. Much of the money that’s been squished out of the rest of the world gets funneled by the internet pipes to this little sliver of land on the Pacific Ocean, jutting out into the glory of the bay. The city now sits atop a geyser of cash created from what the scholar Shoshana Zuboff calls “behavioral surplus”—the natural resource created from your behavior, which is to say your mind.

Literal colonies of the working poor now cling to forgotten streets in RV communities. Homeless encampments are stitched onto any liminal plot of land. To lose your apartment doesn’t mean moving one neighborhood over but three cities away, to Antioch or Gilroy or Stockton.

But wait, it gets worse.

This year, eight major tech companies are expected to hold initial public offerings. The first, Lyft, took the public-market plunge last month. Yesterday, Pinterest did. Airbnb, Instacart, Palantir, Postmates, Slack, and Uber remain. Amazingly, all but Palantir are headquartered in San Francisco, currently home to only five other public software companies—Dropbox, Salesforce, Square, Twitter, and Yelp.

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San Francisco’s skyline as seen from condemned property on Treasure IslandReuters / Elijah Nouvelage

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The digital revolution is changing how we live and work.

Headlines like these are causing people to panic:

• “How the robots will take your job and kill the economy” (Fast Company, 2015)
• “Automation could kill 73 million U.S. jobs by 2030” (USA Today, 2017)
• “Job loss from AI? There’s more to fear!” – (Forbes, 2018)

However that story is more balanced than these headlines imply.

Industry 4.0

Industry and business are being transformed by a new wave of digital technology.  

Mobile sensors can track inventory from the manufacturing floor, all the way through the shipping channel, to a retail shelf or a customer’s door. Machines send out alerts about quality control, errors, supply shortages or breakdowns. Predictive software automatically schedules maintenance for trucking fleets based on travel data and past repair timelines. Behavioral analytics help financial institutions spot suspicious activity in bank and credit card accounts.

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Industry and business are being transformed by a new wave of digital technology

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