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• AI Could Most Affect ‘Knowledge Workers’

  22-11-2019 18:49 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats who are inventing AI algorithms by the hundreds may inadvertently have their own work replaced by their own inventions. Knowledge and white-collar workers are now in the cross-hairs for job replacement.  ⁃ TN EditorThe robot revolution has long been thought of as apocalyptic for blue-collar workers whose tasks are manual and repetitive. A widely cited 2017 McKinsey study said 50 percent of work activities were already automatable using current technology and
  
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• ASU President Michael Crow Leads Sustainable Charge

  22-11-2019 18:30 via technocracy.news
  
  Michael Crow is a consummate Technocrat who has created a new kind of educational experience at ASU, one that is measured by its social impact rather than traditional statistics like awards or intellectual rigor.
  Notably, Crow is also Chairman of the Board of the CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel. His In-Q-Tel bio states,
  Michael M. Crow became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s lead
  
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• BLM Continues To Buy US Land From Nature Conservancy

  22-11-2019 18:09 via technocracy.news
  
  As of 2017, the BLM owned 248 million acres of US land and continues to expand its portfolio. The laundering of new land is often accomplished through the Nature Conservancy, as was the case in this purchase. The Nature Conservancy often acquires land through conservation easements, where landowners retain a life estate in their property, and then deed it to the Conservancy upon their death. ⁃ TN EditorThe Bureau of Land Management closed on a $5.6 million property purchase 
  
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