Pearl River Everywhere you go, everything you read, combines to convince all of us that it’s a brave new world. Robots and artificial intelligence are coming and companies sing a chorus of how good it’s going to be for all of us. Listening to Local 100’s staff on our weekly roundup call made me …
Category: Technology
Smartphones, the New Opiate of the People
San Angel Karl Marx has been famously quoted as referring to religion as the opiate of the masses. His point being that religion, offering a future, better life in the by and by, narcotized people to endure the difficulty of their lives and work, rather than rising to demand change in the here and …
Algorithm Rental Injustice
New Orleans We’ve worried with this problem in the past, but it seems to be getting worse. The Washington Post has stirred the pot again with a series of maps, that weren’t in the print edition, but that powerfully flesh out the issue of RealPage and others contracting with big landlords to use …


