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Jun 12, 2014
As I am blogging my way through the various aspects of a transition to the Information Age I am still keeping in mind that eventually I would like to gather up all the material into a book. So here is ...
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Jun 11, 2014
One of the things we have been emphasizing in homeschooling our children is the importance of giving back. So I am incredibly thrilled that our daughter has launched a Crowdrise fundraiser to support girls at schools in the Lewa Wildlife ...
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Jun 10, 2014
Just as a quick recap. I have argued in Computers and the Return on Capital that having cheaper information flows will in the long run drive the risk free rate of return to the time preference. I then examined how [...] (https://continuations.com/post/88366781445/technology-time-preference-and-the-return-on)
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Jun 5, 2014
Today a broad campaign called Reset The Net has launched with the tagline “Don’t ask for Your privacy. Take it back.” Today also marks the one year anniversary of the Edward Snowden leaks that showed the extent of the NSA [...] (https://continuations.com/post/87927535910/reset-the-net-with-care)
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Jun 4, 2014
We like to put things in categories: public versus private company; for profit versus charity; professional versus amateur; creator versus consumer; journalist versus blogger; teacher versus student; and so much more. Of course not all categorizations are binary. In academia, [...] (https://continuations.com/post/87840669250/the-end-of-categories)
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Jun 2, 2014
In my post on Computers and the Return on Capital I made the point that cheaper and more ubiquitous flows of information will drive the risk free return on capital towards the time preference (assuming that capital can also flow [...] (https://continuations.com/post/87663341150/technology-time-preference-and-the-return-on)
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May 28, 2014
Yesterday’s post on the impact of computers on the return of capital didn’t mention the shift from producer to consumer surplus. Tren Griffin rightly called this out on Twitter. I have written a lot about the rising importance of consumer [...] (https://continuations.com/post/87097295835/consumer-surplus-and-returns-to-capital)
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May 27, 2014
Having examined the impact of computers on wages the logical next question to ask is what this means for the returns on capital. Here is the TL;DR version: higher returns in the short run and lower returns in the long [...] (https://continuations.com/post/86996283185/computers-and-the-return-on-capital-first-up)
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May 22, 2014
As I argued in my last post, there is good reason to believe that computers are substitutes for labor in general. Their apparent complementarity with skilled labor was the result of substituting skilled labor for unskilled labor rather than being [...] (https://continuations.com/post/86513198690/computers-and-wages-the-great-divergence)