Technology

In the ongoing series of posts on technology's threat to existing labor roles, Global Macro Monitor highlights this video on robot farmers.

News links for 22 December 2011 including stories on the tech world, Europe, and the ECB

News links for 21 December 2011 including notes on technology, the sovereign debt crisis, elections, and Europe

The Wall Street Journal's Stu Woo reports on how Amazon ramps up for the Christmas selling season in a much-read write-up for the paper with a focus on the thoughts of holiday season workers like 75-year old Ray Williams and his wife…

Imagine if/when this becomes scalable. Another potential example of the structural change taking place in the labor force.

The guys over at Bespoke put out a great piece yesterday comparing the post-bubble performance of U.S. financials after the February 2007 top and the technology sector after the dot.com peak in March 2000.

More News Links for 13 December 2011 including a report of Verizon chasing Netflix, Google building a siri competitor and a potential mobile driving ban.

Financial news links on China, technology companies, the eurozone debt crisis and more

News links for 11 Dec 2011 on European growth, the sovereign debt crisis, Technology IPOs and patents, US elections and more

News links for 10 December 2011 on US politics, fracking, venture capital and technology