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Economic Impact of Tech Understated, Study Says 87

Posted by kdawson from the productivity-but-not-jobs dept.
narramissic writes "A report (available here) released this week by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a pro-technology think tank, claims that IT was responsible for nearly all of the US worker productivity growth between 1995 and 2002. But the creation of new jobs in IT will be modest, the study says. At a forum in Washington, D.C., the report's co-author and ITIF president Robert Atkinson warned lawmakers that there will be a 'significant cost to the economy if you hinder digital transformation' and called on the government to spur IT adoption in several industries, including health care, banking and transportation." The article also quotes an economist who is skeptical that this report's outsized claims for productivity gains have been proven.
Windows

Journal Journal: Windows update killed my computer

Journal by eagl

The latest set of windows updates killed my computer. After the mandatory reboot, the computer locked up hard. It locks before the windows boot splash screen even shows, even when I boot using the various "F8" options. I used a ubuntu live cd to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem, and after mounting the windows partition I saw that trying the windows "logged" boot option wasn't even getting far enough to create the log file.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Ask slshdot - Work meeting formats. 3

Journal by tomhudson

Anyone who's read Dilbert knows that meetings are generally seen as time-wasters that suck the lifeblood out of you. Anything over 30 minutes (45 minutes "gros max") is purgatory. Right now, we don't have any such "general meetings" - just a lot of one-on-one or three people at a time discussions. However, what's happened is that people don't really get an idea of where their work fits in, and I've gotten the impression that some people feel a bit isolated as a result. Also, people spend t
Science

New State of Matter Boosts Quantum Computation 41

Posted by kdawson from the string-net-liquid dept.
Matthew Sparkes writes "In theory, quantum computers can be superior to classical computers for some kinds of problems; in practice their building blocks, qubits, are extremely fragile. Even a slight knock can destroy information. A radical solution to this problem was proposed in the 80's — instead of storing qubits in properties of particles, such as an electron's spin, it was suggested that qubits could be encoded into properties shared by the whole material, and so would be harder to disrupt. Unfortunately, no material with the needed properties existed. Scientists now think they have made a material in the lab, thought to be an example of a new state of matter, that might do the trick. It's an ultra-purified form of a mineral, herbertsmithite, first discovered in Chile in 1972. Its electrons are arranged in a triangular lattice. Researchers say it could become the silicon of the quantum computing era."

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