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Shadows Of The Coming Race (1879)
I recently came across the short essay below by George Eliot, the male pen name of Victorian author Mary Ann Evans. It’s quite remarkable in its prescience of current AI debates, particularly how long the “servant-master” relationship can persist between humans and their machines. What’s striking for me is that I’d read several of her …
Rent’s due. Now what? Experts warn a housing crisis shadows the health crisis
Wednesday marks the first of a new month, a day when rent comes due for millions of Americans for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak shuttered much of the country and caused widespread job losses. Federal, state and local governments have scrambled to enact policies to keep renters who’ve seen their source of income …
