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1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2019 17:36:55 EDT neil 🍄

   Listened to a thing about the fourth industrial revolution, so called.  Driven by things like machine learning, AI, nano materials, biotech, additive manufacturing, sensors and IoT, autonomous vehicles.

   I dunno.  I fail to be excited by any of it any more, unless it comes with an explicit intent to improve social wellbeing, not just vague promises of productivity and efficiency, shit going faster for the sake of it.

   1. benjamin melançon (mlncn@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jul-2019 19:44:06 EDT benjamin melançon

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      @neil if you *do* want the combo of social wellbeing and economic justice with the fourth industrial revolution, nowhere better to look than https://cooperationjackson.org/

      There's much more about the 4th industrial revolution stuff in the book Jackson Rising - https://darajapress.com/publication/jackson-rising-the-struggle-for-economic-democracy-and-self-determination-in-jackson-mississippi - than on the Cooperation Jackson website, but some of it gets into this review: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/06/reversing-past-oppression-cooperation-jackson-builds-a-better-future/