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The Dawn of Everything, A New History Of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow

December 10, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Non-fiction Finished the 524 pages of “The Dawn of Everything, A New History Of Humanity” by Davids Graeber and Wengrow. A challenging book, well written and somewhat academic in tone, both authors are professors at their respective British schools, Graeber of economics and Wengrow of comparative archeology. The authors propose that there were actually few … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, History, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Slavery, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: Amerindian, ancient cities, Andean, antiquity, archeology, comparative archeology, council leadership, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Economics, Egyptian, ethnology, freedom, Mesoamerican, Mesopotamian, paleontology, self-governance, The Dawn of Everything

A Few Notes About the Future of Work

November 25, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Seems that themes come in batches, the newest theme for me is the old Jetson’s promise of leisure time replacing work, somewhere in the future we’d all work at what we’re good at and there would be enough (food and other goods and money) to go around. I’m firmly convinced that since the dawn of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: AI, Artifical Intelligence, Economics, Future of Work, Government, innovation, MIT, money, Politics, productivity, Skidelsky, so-so technology, startups, Stockton, technology

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