3 Does the Internet Change Everything? - The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton by Tyler Cowen --------------- larivoluzionedeicuriosi valorementaleottimapericuriosi tuttogratis piledrogaperfetta lavorailcliente ricavibassiepocolavoro pilgiù? twittermoltineparlanopochilousano skillmismatch fugadalmaterialismo
3 Does the Internet Change Everything?Read more at location 451
Note: In realtà l'innovazione esiste: internet. Solo che è ben diversa da quella passata. Crea un valore differente xchè di natura mentale visto che i suoi servizi sono per lo più gratuiti ed è difficile quantificarli. Inoltre nn sono disponibili x tutti, occorrono abilità cognitive particolari x sfruttarli e goderne... Immagina che si scopra la droga xfetta: tutti noi staremmo meglio ma gli indicatori economici segnerebbero un tracollo. Ebbene, internet produce uno scollegamento del genere lasciandoci nel mistero. Comprare 2 euro di banane alza il pil di 2 euro ma godere con internet x 20 euro nn incide sulle cifre ufficiali anzi le abbassa xchè ci distoglie da altri lavori... Internet genera pochi posti di lavoro. Tutti abbiamo sentito di Twitter ma solo qualche centinaio di xsone lavora lì. Il lavoro grosso lo fanno gli utenti x divertimento. Il resto lo fanno le macchine o da lavoratori con competenze particolari. Ecco spiegate le jobless recovery o il fatto che alta disoccupazione conviva cpn imprese alla vana caccia di xsonale... Paradosso: ci immaginiamo immersi in un mondo materialistico quando in realtà viviamo in un mondo dove il gratuito si è moltiplicato. La vera rivoluzione consiste nel passaggio da consumi materiali a consumi mentali o addiruttura spirituali. È difficile dare un valore a qs. attività spirituale mentre è chiaro come incida negativamente su attività che creano n valorei facilmente misurabile... Edit
It’s hard to measure the productivity of the internet,Read more at location 456
It’s especially beneficial for those who are intellectually curious, those who wish to manage large networks of loose acquaintances,Read more at location 461
The funny thing about the internet, from an economic point of view, is that so many of the products are free.Read more at location 463
Maybe a tweet doesn’t look like much, but its value lies in the mental dimension.Read more at location 467
In other words, the new low-hanging fruit is in our minds and in our laptops and not so much in the revenue-generating sector of the economy.Read more at location 471
Another way of putting this is, you can be an optimist when it comes to our happiness and personal growth yet still be a pessimist when it comes to generating economic revenueRead more at location 472
To be sure, the internet does generate some revenue. Google ads improve the quality of advertising,Read more at location 476
Still, relative to how much it shapes our lives and thoughts, the revenue component of the internet is comparatively small.Read more at location 479
It’s also the case that a lot of the internet’s biggest benefits are distributed in proportion to our cognitive abilities to exploit them.Read more at location 482
The internet is a public good, but you don’t benefit from it automatically in the same way you do from a flush toilet or a paved road.Read more at location 483
Much of the value of the internet is experienced at the personal level and so will never show up in the productivity numbers.Read more at location 486
Buying $2 worth of bananas boosts GDP, but having $20 worth of fun cruising the Web does not,Read more at location 487
The revenueintensive sectors of our economy have been slowing down,Read more at location 498
The major internet companies perform a lot of their miracles by information technology and not so much by human hands. Most Web activities do not generate jobs and revenue at the rate of past technological breakthroughs.Read more at location 502
You could say that the real work is done by its users, in their spare time and as a form of leisure.Read more at location 506
Everyone on the Web has heard of Twitter, but as of Fall 2010, only about three hundred people work there.Read more at location 508
Online Industry Employment Levels Google—20,000 Facebook—1,700+ eBay—16,400 Twitter—300Read more at location 511
That is one reason why we have been seeing a “jobless recovery.” It’s also why unemployment is so concentrated among the relatively unskilled.Read more at location 519
We’re facing a fundamental skills mismatch, and the U.S. labor market is increasingly divided into a group that can keep up with technical work and a group that can’t.Read more at location 523
They are taking lower-paying but more interesting jobs,Read more at location 537
I see a lot of well-off people cruising the Web, and cherishing their Twitter feed, rather than shopping for diamonds. The funny thing is, getting away from materialism on such a large scale—whatever the virtues of that switch—really, really hurts.Read more at location 537
scientific breakthroughs improve most people’s lives on a daily basis?
