Gordon's Notes

It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...

1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...

I last wrote about "mass disability" and the Left Behind in a 2021 post . The concept has sometimes seemed on the edge of going ma...

TL;DR: It's not that ChatGPT is miraculous, it's that cognitive science research suggests human cognition is also not miraculous. &q...

The 70s were pretty weird, but I was too young to notice. (Not coincidentally, the Toffler/Farrell Future Shock book was written then.) By ...

I haven’t written recently about why Crisis 2016, sometimes called Crisis-T , happened. For that matter, why Brexit. My last takes were in 2...

I believe this is true — though I’d be more confident if one of my favorite economists thought this was plausible (emphases mine): If The ...

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

I’m going to translate the subtexts and signals of  What’s Wrong With the Democrats? - The Atlantic  into plain language: Democrats should...

It’s a human thing. Something insane happens and we try to figure out “why now?”. We did a lot of that in the fall of 2001. Today I looked b...

We know the shape of the socioeconomic future for the bottom 40%  in the post globalization post AI   mass disability world . But how do ...

[ Preface 9/6/13 : I am enjoying the app.net discussion thread on this  with @duerig and @clarkgoble. When reading this, try substituting TR...

A good feature of teenagers is that they sometimes sleep in. So Emily and I can chat on a quiet Saturday morning about wearable tech  ( reme...

Imagine you have very limited or no legal employment opportunities. Or perhaps you have some opportunities, but they pay poorly. Dealing dr...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

I've been chattering for a few years about the rise of  mass disability and the role of RCIIT (India, China, computers, networks) in t...

Americans are grumpy. It's been a bleak decade, and the next one doesn't look too promising. Our politicians are going to have to wo...

At last count my list of contributing factors to the crash of '09 included ... Complexity collapse : we don't understand our e...

Econbrowser draws a connection between known problems with performance-based compensation, given to CEOs to “align” their interests with tho...

I must be up to at least 30 Crackpot points in my recent economics threads, but I just can't help myself. I swear, I'm going to st...