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Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?
Money & Business

Should we tax robots who replace humans in the workplace?

...technology. What’s often overlooked is the role that tax policies play in this. Current policies in many countries, including the US and UK, encourage automation even when it would not otherwise be efficient. Plus, the switch to automation also dramatically reduces the government’s tax revenue because fewer human workers mean fewer tax contributions. This means that...
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To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...technology capable of doing so. Indeed, there is ongoing research to produce such an instrument. It is anticipated that the next decade will witness a successful application of this technology which can be replicated for future crewed missions and perhaps even for developing a future Moon base. From 1-7th July 2019, the Open University joins four other institutions to...
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The sharing economy
Society, Politics & Law

The sharing economy

...technology and society Evgeny Morozov called the outcome of this transformation ‘neoliberalism on steroids’ (Morozov 2013, cited in Richardson 2015). Regaining the sharing economy While the first part of Orsi’s cartoon shows how the ownership structure of companies in today’s sharing economy undermine social and environmental goals they might once have had, the...
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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...technological change and innovation, changing company values, the creation of new knowledge, new product development and changing workplace behaviours. There are also external forces driving change, including competition in the marketplace, consumer behaviours, availability of resource and knowledge, and social and political change. Change happens for many reasons. It can...
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A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
Education & Development

A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience

...technology. Dr Timnit Gebru, April Christiana Curley, Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks were the four Black women whose cases we analysed, as they had previously worked at Google, Facebook and Pinterest. Our preliminary findings suggest that a lexical approach is insufficient to detect all cases of online misogynoir. Nevertheless, our qualitative analysis reveals that...
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The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...technologies coming before your eyes. How this transformation happened is one of the great questions of historical study, and not just for academics; whether you’re interested in the environment, social issues, or the sources of prosperity, the history of how economic modernity came to be really matters. Historians have been debating this subject for years, and the...
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The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution
History & The Arts

The Origins of the Idea of the Industrial Revolution

...technologies used in the cotton manufacture. For example, in a passage added to Anderson’s The Origin of Commerce in 1789, the journalist William Combe wrote that “some years previous to this period, an event happened which portended a considerable revolution in the manufactures of Great Britain. This was the invention of Mr Arkwright’s celebrated machine, which is...
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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...educational and employment life-course opportunities. [A photograph of the bottom half of six people standing in a line. In front of them is the text: youth.] Between 2010/11 and 2018/19 there has been almost a billion pounds of funding cuts to youth services, some areas in England and Wales now have no funding (YMCA, 2020). Youth transitions are longer, less stable –...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs