🔮 💥 The end of Windows; AI & the end of ; future work; China's social credit, renewables, Bible, and consciousness++ #160

Dept of the near future

📍 AI is really upending the old tech industry. Ben Thompson on how last week’s Microsoft reorganisation around AI means the end of Windows.

🙅 Having poached Google’s top AI exec to become a direct report of Tim Cook, Apple is looking to ditch Intel and develop its own chips.

💼 Walmart’s new workforce: robots and the gig economy. A “sign that the U.S. economy is tilting further toward jobs that give workers less market power” or will the switch allow workers to “to take advantage of higher-paying offers” from other employers? (More evidence here.) See also:

• Socioeconomic sorting is making the United States more polarised (real-life filter bubbles; and possibly relevant to Brexit and other rural/urban divides).

• Laura Tyson: Don’t worry about technological unemployment. Do worry about inequality. AI is rapidly changing the types and location of the best-paying jobs.

• RSA's Benedict Dellot: Advocates of good work need to start thinking about the distribution of capital.