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How the internet is making us poor – Quartz

http://qz.com/67323/how-the-internet-made-us-poor/
Barring a civilization-ending event, technology is not going to move backward. More and more of our world will be controlled by software. It’s already become so ubiquitous that, argues one of my colleagues, it’s now ridiculous to call some firms as “tech” companies when all companies depend on it so much.

How the internet is making us poor – Quartz

http://qz.com/67323/how-the-internet-made-us-poor
Barring a civilization-ending event, technology is not going to move backward. More and more of our world will be controlled by software. It’s already become so ubiquitous that, argues one of my colleagues, it’s now ridiculous to call some firms as “tech” companies when all companies depend on it so much.

Yield Thought, Work Is Fascinating: The Metagame

http://yieldthought.com/post/5862066767/work-is-fascinating-metagame
"I started thinking about programmer performance a while ago. Everybody will tell you that you can’t measure programmer productivity, but this is at best a half-truth. We can, and we should. Perhaps what we shouldn’t do is use those measurements to compare programmers to each other, but we can definitely measure ourselves."