Special: The Future of Gig Work
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
How ride hailing defied government, angered unions and workers and how California voters will decide if gig work will ever be the same again in California and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | A tech demo shows off the usual tech things. |
| 0:03.7 | Then I'm going to jump to a link. |
| 0:05.2 | Using the usual tech devices. |
| 0:07.0 | We have a pointing device called our mouse. |
| 0:09.0 | Doing the usual tech productivity tasks. |
| 0:11.4 | Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see |
| 0:15.7 | your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the |
| 0:20.5 | next half century, then almost immediately be ignored. |
| 0:24.4 | The mother of all demos on Noa Little More. |
| 0:27.6 | Get it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.6 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats so you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone |
| 0:46.4 | else's. |
| 0:49.4 | Trains now on Uber. |
| 0:50.8 | T's and C's apply. |
| 0:51.8 | Check the Uber app. The Beatles, Now and Then. |
| 0:54.8 | The Beatles, Now and Then. |
| 0:57.0 | The Last Beatles Song Out now. |
| 1:05.0 | Out now. over They set the conditions by which an Uber driver can drive and to suggest that they're not employees I think is just in January. |
| 1:26.0 | What do state politicians do pass a drastic law that could eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs? |
| 1:32.0 | We require an overhaul of the entire business model. |
| 1:35.0 | It's not a switch that can be flipped overnight. |
| 1:37.0 | Please vote no on Proposition 22. |
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