🔮 Jobs or no jobs; AI’s past guides its future; against metrics; pineapples, bacteria & influencers++ #163

Dept of the near future

⏳  “The past is prologue.” Rodney Brooks aims to clarify the origins of AI, and identify just how much more exciting work there is to do. Must read.

📐  Against metrics: has the obsession with metrics-driven the short-termism and productivity slowdown afflicting many Western economies?

💳 How did China leapfrog the rest of the world…