Showing posts with label Brookings Institution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brookings Institution. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

NV's Great Recession results

The Brookings Institution's findings on Metro areas faring best amid the Recession show Nashville 51st among 100. Full Brookings report here (pdf). Related NBJ story.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

'Wired for War'

Brookings Fellow Peter Singer discussed his latest book, Wired for War, during this week's meeting of the Nashville Committee on Foreign Relations. Plenty of discussion of the ethics, human values, economics and socio-economic consequences of automation and artificial intelligence on the battlefield...including how our enemies see us, when we rely increasingly on robotic proxies.