【Native Speaker每日训练计划】No.2246 经管

hanyuntao

T2:2’36’’
One of the great ironies of the digital revolution is that while the world has been transformed into a hyper-connected community enabling instant collaboration, social media platform have managed to divide us into a collect of factious tribes that are wholly incapable of even basic compromises.
The antipode to tribalism is diversity, especially diversity of thought. For instance, in US, people have freedom to speak. No authority would be able to silence another’s voice.
T3:2’07’’
Independent thinking is also an attribute. This is a paradox, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in this group to think and act as independently as possible.
Local knowledge: which is the capability to draw upon specialised and localised information,
Aggregation mechanisms, which are the processes or algorithms for integrating the content of everyone’s observations and opinions.
The expansion of platforms:
At first ,the only platform for both encouraging and inhibiting open dialogue was the government. The vehicles were books, newspapers and speeches in the public square.
Then is the censorship
Now is the social media platform.
T4:3’08
The lifeblood of social media platforms is algorithms. Google is one of the earliest example. Google was a late entry into a crowded filed of upstart search engines. But it focused on the collective computer algorithms rater than editorial expert human judgement enabled Google to become an overnight sensation and the longtime dominant leader of Internet search.
Search today appears to blend collective intelligence with customized personal search patterns.
Facebook has has also built customization into its evolving algorithms. the algorithm was modified to present only the news that is consistent with people’s pre-disposed narratives.
Human steering
The human steering by the custodians of social media platforms appears to be a strong contributing factor to our current state of fractious tribalism

hanyuntao

T7:5‘18’‘
Although it is difficult for non-oil county to build up saving, there are still some other ways to increase revenue: make the better use of assets.
Assets include: natural resources; property and infrastructure, such as ports and roads; public firms, such as utilities and state-owned airlines; and financial assets like those held by public pension funds.
A big point is that with so many assets on the books, it would take only a small increase in yields to raise a lot of money.
1.Generate yields for for society from some assets, such as national parks, are non-monetary.  For instance, the Boston airport, which sits on prime waterfront and could be moved inland.
2.take financial assets.
3.improving profitability of public firms, like post office.
4.For many physical assets, the first step is working out the value of what is on the books.
A government’s biggest assets are its ability to raise taxes in the future and to change policy, for example by cutting state pensions. But these are assets nobody wants to see used to their full potential. The more that cash-strapped governments can raise from the stuff they own, the less they will have to cut and squeeze elsewhere.