{"id":15312,"date":"2015-05-25T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15312"},"modified":"2015-05-25T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:28:00","slug":"open-thread5252015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/25\/open-thread5252015\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/25\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m completely worn out.  Yesterday I finally got around to completing the corporate tax returns and annual reporting paperwork for my prison volunteer organization.  It took the rest of the day.  I\u2019m trying to rest as much as possible today, because tomorrow will be busy packing and doing last minute preparations for my three day prison volunteer trip.  Therefore my Memorial Day article will be a repost of last year\u2019s.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 2:17 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Remember Douglas Adams\u2019s 1979 novel \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy\u201d? It began with some technology snark, dismissing Earth as a planet whose life-forms<\/a>as a planet whose life-forms<\/a> \u201care so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.\u201d But that was then, in the early stages of the information technology revolution.<\/p>\n

Since then we\u2019ve moved on to much more significant things, so much so that the big technology idea of 2015, so far, is a digital watch. But this one tells you to stand up if you\u2019ve been sitting too long!O.K., I\u2019m snarking, too. But there is a real question here. Everyone knows that we live in an era of incredibly rapid technological change, which is changing everything. But what if what everyone knows is wrong? And I\u2019m not being wildly contrarian here. A growing number of economists, looking at the data on productivity and incomes, are wondering if the technological revolution has been greatly overhyped \u2014 and some technologists share their concern.<\/p>\n

Click through for this thought provoking editorial by Paul Krugman.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Upworthy<\/a>: <\/font>Watch David Blight elaborate on the story of what happened those days in Charleston, S.C. in this PBS clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n