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I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future
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Tim Worstall is an Englishman who has failed at many things. Thus his turn to writing, the last refuge of many who could make a living no other way. He is, as an example of his business and financial perspicacity, the head of the international scandium oligopoly: the only commodity which has not risen in price in the past decade.
I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future
Various of the concerned intelligensia seem to be worried at present that the computers and the robots are going to come and take all our jobs. None of us will have anything to do, we'll starve and the capitalists who own the robots will end up with everything.
Often, the solution offered is that we should therefore tax capital …
Tech giants' offshore cash-stashing is only ever a delaying tactic
Do companies have a duty to their shareholders to dodge as much tax as possible? Are Google, Apple and Facebook simply following the law as they ought to by shovelling everything through Ireland and Bermuda?
Unsurprisingly, it depends on which law you think they're supposed to follow, for the law does, in fact, vary across …
Mobile tech destroys the case for the HS2 £multi-beellion train set
Finally people seem to be waking up to the dog's breakfast which is the economic case for the proposed High Speed Two London-Birmingham rail link.
You know, this lovely train set that the politicians want to plonk down in the middle of England. I've never quite been sure why it is that politicians love such train sets: most of …
Adobe price hike: Your money or your files, frappuccino sippers
So, Adobe: can it justify shifting its Creative Suite to a contentious new licensing model?
Some say it is making life more difficult and expensive for those users who'd prefer to simply purchase the software outright, while others say it's just a decent business trying to do right by everybody.
I refer, of course, to the …
Why next iPhone screen could be made of SAPPHIRE - and a steal...
Man-made sapphire could replace Gorilla Glass as the material of choice for scratch-and-crack-resistant mobile phone screens in the near future, according to a recent speculative piece from MIT Technology Review.
According to the research university's mag:
Manufactured sapphire — a material that’s used as transparent armor on …
Bitcoins: A GIANT BUBBLE? Maybe, but currency could still be worthwhile
The Bitcoin economy is a bubble and it'll all end in tears. Bitcoin is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will change the world forever. What might surprise some of you is that there's no contradiction between these two statements.
Whether the internet currency is in a bubble or not, and whether that bubble bursts and …
