Older Adults and Technology Use
Adoption is increasing, but many seniors remain isolated from digital life
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Areas Where Both Groups Agree
Even as they disagree on the ultimate impact for jobs, there are several points on which these groups concur. Some of their predictions are rooted in extreme pessimism about our ability to adapt to the coming wave of technological change, but others offer a more hopeful outlook. Our public institutions—especially our educational system—are not adequately […]
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Views from Those Who Expect AI and Robotics to Have a Positive or Neutral Impact on Jobs by 2025
Despite near-universal agreement that AI and robotics will make huge advances in the coming decade, the experts who participated in this survey are evenly split on the question of what impact those advances will have on human employment. Throughout history, technological advances have produced as many new jobs as they displace—there is no reason to […]
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More hate crimes motivated by victims’ ethnicity
In about half of the cases of reported hate crimes, victims believed their ethnic background motivated the offender.
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Data Feed: Millennials’ college payoff, Marcellus Shale job boom, global food waste
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
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Data Feed: Democrats want Clinton, young children now less obese, California’s driest year on record
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
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After Decades of Decline, A Rise in Stay-at-Home Mothers
The share of mothers who do not work outside the home rose to 29% in 2012, up from a modern-era low of 23% in 1999, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data.
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Data Feed: Unemployment top priority, tech-exec pay packages, bullying’s long-term impact
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Elaborations: More Expert Responses
Each increment of growth in bandwidth has enabled new communication, new participation in communities, more effective outreach to broader social networks, more access to information, and more algorithmic interventions to sort and filter data. Most of the experts in this canvassing see all those trends being amplified in the decade to come as gigabit connectivity […]
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Low Engagement
The three low engagement groups in our typology—Not For Me, Young and Restless, and Rooted and Roadblocked—fall at the farthest end of the spectrum of library users. Unlike members of the medium engagement groups, who generally report being moderately active in their library habits, only about a third of the low engagement users have used […]
