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The Impact of Robots: Abundance and the Need for Radical Structural Reform
Marx anticipated the problem as capitalism’s systemic crisis, the growth in the ‘organic composition of capital’ (machines) in an inverse relation to ‘living labor’ (jobs). The way out, in the shorter...
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‘Smart’ Wind Farms Make More Waves than Clean Energy
Big Data From Talking Turbines Signal Productivity Boom By Shobhana Chandra, Rich Miller and Peter Burrows SolidarityEconomy.net via Bloomberg.com Sep 11, 2013 - At the Top Crop farm in Dwight,...
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High Touch Leapfrogging High Tech?
Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization By Aviva Hope Rutkin SolidarityEconomy.net via MIT Tech Review Sept 12, 2013 - Oxford researchers say that 45 percent of...
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One More Reason Nukes Are a Bad Idea
Death Of The Pacific Ocean: Fukushima Debris SOON TO HIT American Shores By Yoichi Shimatsu SolidarityEconomy.net via Fourth Media September 17, 2013 - An unstoppable tide of radioactive trash and...
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Socialism Plans Ahead: China’s Future in Nanotechnology
By Eugene Clark SolidarityEconomy.net via China.org.cn Feb 17, 2014 - China is positioning itself to become a world leader in nanotechnology and 2014 is shaping up to be a momentous year. The...
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High Design:High-flying Turbine Produces More Power
The Buoyant Air Turbine (or BAT), developed by Altaeros Energies, uses an inflatable shell to float 1,000 to 2,000 feet above ground, where winds blow five to eight times stronger, and more...
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‘Low Road’ Capital Tries to Fetter High Design and Muni-Socialism
Chattanooga's Gig: how one city's super-fast internet is driving a tech boom The city is one of the only places on Earth with internet as fast as 1 gigabit per second – about 50 times faster than the...
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Robotics: How Capitalism Is Making Conditions for Its Own Demise
For as Little $20,000, Machines Handle the Tedious—With No Lunch Breaks; 'Fred, Hand Me That Wrench' Robots Working Their Way Into Small Factories Photo By Taylor Glascock, WSJ By Timothy Aeppel...
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A Job Builder Worth Fighting For: City-Owned SuperFast and LowCost WiFi
Brad Shirley installs a wireless mesh access point in Foxwood Heights at the intersection of Peggy Lane and Line Street in Chattanooga 32 US Cities Commit to Community-owned Broadband Internet Access...
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High Design: Green Power from Waves
WaveNET – the floating, flexible wave energy generator By Loz Blain SolidarityEconomy.net via Gizmag Nov 26, 2014 - WaveNET - a floating, flexible, modular and massively scalable wave power generation...
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