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Digital lives, privacy & you: Time has come for Virtual Private Assistants

As we increasingly live our private lives online, I believe the market is ripe for a new paradigm of individual data security and privacy. It is time for individual consumers to be able to conduct our “business” with the same anonymity, data security and privacy that corporations expect for their private operations. I propose the creation of Virtual Private Assistants.

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AI & its threat to 40-hour work week: Will we be paid by the second or the hour?

For many applications, AI isn’t an evolutionary efficiency improvement, but a near elimination of the variable of time in the completion of work.  Companies have a long history of taking productivity gains for themselves, rather than directly translating them to worker pay. I predict that companies will balk at paying employees a full salary if they can conduct today’s in just a few minutes per week with tomorrow’s technology.

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