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Showing posts with label Sustainability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sustainability. Show all posts
03 June, 2020
Last year, UNSW responded to falling enrolments with a proposal to lower entry requirements. With an estimated 80 per cent of teaching now casualised, academics have become itinerant workers. Students have become customers. Teachers report widespread pressure to pass low-grade students but cannot speak of it, fearing reprisal.
Labels:
Education,
Ethical,
Sustainability
20 May, 2020
'Greatest peril': study finds Australia most dependent on China among the Five Eyes. The report did not recommend an immediate economic decoupling from China as that would be “painful and expensive” but said the Five Eyes countries should work together to prevent China dominating the nine industries that it identified would dominate the future economy. They are: artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous robotics, computing hardware, cryptographic technology, materials and manufacturing science, nano-technologies, networking and data communication, quantum technology and synthetic biology.
01 May, 2020
POPE FRANCIS ON SUNDAY advocated for a form of universal basic income that would "dignify the noble, essential tasks" carried out by street vendors, small farmers, construction workers and caregivers around the world. The message turned heads in the U.S., coming just weeks after lawmakers finalized a plan to distribute direct cash transfers to many Americans – and just months after entrepreneur Andrew Yang made waves in the Democratic presidential primaries on a policy platform based around the adoption of a universal basic income.
Labels:
Catholic Worldview,
Sustainability
22 November, 2019
01 November, 2019
BIG ISSUE FOR WIRELESS BUDS It also appears the new AirPods Pro design has done nothing to address what are becoming a couple of massive issues for AirPods and other wireless audio devices. Firstly, the design of the AirPods and other true wireless buds makes them practically impossible to fix, meaning the limited-life lithium-ion batteries that power the devices can’t be replaced. Device teardown specialists iFixit gave the original AirPods a 0/10 score for repairability. “Accessing any case component is impossible without destroying the outer casing,” the website said following its assessment.
Labels:
Ethical,
Sustainability
21 October, 2019
16 September, 2019
28 August, 2019
31 July, 2019
02 July, 2019
20 May, 2019
03 May, 2019
30 April, 2019
Hundreds of Google staffers met on Friday and discussed what activists allege is a frequent consequence of criticising the company: Retaliation. Two leaders of recent company protests said they've been mistreated by managers and collected similar stories from other workers at the world's largest internet company.
Labels:
Catholic Worldview,
Ethical,
ICT Career,
Sustainability,
Women in IT
29 April, 2019
As classrooms across the country embrace digital textbooks, one Sydney school has declared the e-book era over and returned to the old-fashioned hard copy version because it improves comprehension and reduces distraction. For the past five years, Reddam House's primary and junior high school classes have used e-textbooks on iPads. But the consistent feedback from the students has been that they preferred pages to screens.
03 April, 2019
Yang is running a rather methodical, data-driven, science-happy campaign. He’s applying that approach to more standard-issue problems like labor, climate change, and the economy but giving them a decidedly tech-forward approach: how (and why) we should define robots, what use might geoengineering have in saving the planet, and whether the government should embrace universal basic income and give every American a $1,000 check.
20 March, 2019
13 March, 2019
04 March, 2019
Why technologists are limiting their families' screen time Fears over the side effects of digital devices and social media are prompting tech experts to limit the time they and their children spend online. Simmons allows her children to use computers but would prefer them to pull the machines apart or learn the code that powers them, rather than stare mindlessly at screens. "They need to be creators, rather than users," she says.
18 February, 2019
The language of capitalism isn’t just annoying, it’s dangerous. Why should we pay attention to the particular words used to describe, and justify, the regularly scheduled “disruptions” of late capitalism? Published last week by Haymarket Books, Leary’s Keywords explores the regime of late-capitalist language: a set of ubiquitous modern terms, drawn from the corporate world and the business press, that he argues promulgate values friendly to corporations (hierarchy, competitiveness, the unquestioning embrace of new technologies) over those friendly to human beings (democracy, solidarity, and scrutiny of new technologies’ impact on people and the planet).
04 February, 2019
The latest statistics from the Digital Australia Report 2018 show 67 per cent of Australians play video games; aside from passing the time, gamers also play to de-stress. And game developers have picked up on this. Farming Simulator 19 is the latest game to offer a "Mindful Gaming" experience, explaining the slower pace of the game and immersive detail as a way for people to relax.
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