World in Transition II
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Claims that industrial society is yielding to information society, grounded in numbers: US Q1 GDP growth 0.1%, Craigslist shrinks classifieds by about $20 billion, an Oxford-linked study flags ~47% of jobs as automatable, face‑recognition now beats humans, people average 11 minutes on task with three context switches, an average US book sells ~250 copies. Examples of new economics: Kickstarter pre-sales for Oculus Rift Pono ($6M) and Ouya ($8M), Flappy Bird earning ~$50,000/day, and Shapeways keeping products as information. These underline disappearing growth, disappearing jobs and disappearing capital.
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