Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
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We have another zero in the #Covid19Cymru official figures for deaths today. That's still just one death in the past week.
Number of cases is up to 51, and Welsh government is blaming young people for not social distancing - and likely with justification. By the spread of cases not in the hotspots, I'd say there's still a large element of seeing in from outside (returning holidaymakers mainly).
7-day average: 0.14
Total: 1596
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BI pilot schemes are one thing. but large-scale schemes, let alone UBI, require significant reseach and planning plus, of course, a proper administrative structure. Nonetheless, this is the future and relatively soon many countries will turn their backs on means-tested state benefits.
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Obviously this is the sort of thing that is likely to be driving the rise we see in #Covid19Cymru cases at the moment; people returning from Covid hotspots.
I discussed this, in view of the observed wide distribution of a relatively low number of cases, in a recent post.
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Machlud haul heno, gyda chefyllau!
Sunset this evening, with horses!
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The third consecutive zero in the official #Covid19Cymru figures for deaths masks the fact that new cases are going up. 56 today - the highest for some time. They are dotted all over, and that makes me think that the theory that they are caused by people coming back from holidays is quite likely correct. The good thing about that is that local clusters are not appearing, which suggests test-trace-isolate is working in Cymru.
Total deaths: 1595
7-day Average: 0.43 (3 in the past week)
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My girlfriend asked me whether I could still do a somersault on the ground, and I think I may now have hurt my back just thinking about it 😄
Thanks for coming back to me. I take the issue about unemployment extremely seriously indeed.
A number of issues need to be acknowledged here - not just by politicians but by electorates. First, there is the challenge of climate change. Secondly, there is the challenge of AI/robotics. Thirdly, there is the challenge of understanding economics differently to how we do now, and for a variety reasons. The nexus between effort and hard work and monetary rewards has always been somewhat tenuous, now it is seriously broken.
In the future, I think work will be gradually decoupled from prevailing patterns of financial reward. People will work for others reasons. So how will they survive? I think the way forward is almost certainly going to involve some form of Universal Basic Income for all citizens. (There's not time to go into all the issues surrounding UBI here).
The decline in office work has to be set within a wider picture of political/economic transformation where old rules disappear and new ones emerge. The politics of the future will be about managing this transformation effectively. This cannot happen unless there is a genuine compact between governments and electorates where public trust is a reality not a slogan
Office work needs to be phased out over time, sector by sector. Some office work will remain, but most will go.
In short we need to head towards a 'people-centred', sustainable economics that is properly respectful of the fragility of the earth's ecosystem.
@peterdrake I think you're 'Miles Ahead' of most of us!
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Speaking as a college professor, the most overawing comment about the American educational system I can make is that students experience schooling as terror. Every semester it takes me a month to convince my students I’m not going to try and hurt them.
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Archimedes' last words were "Do not disturb my circles", a reference to the circles in the mathematical drawing that he was studying before being killed by a Roman soldier.
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
