TUESDAY
TO THOSE OF US WHO HAVE ACTUALLY
BEEN LOLLYGAGGING AROUND ABOUT LOOKING FOR WORK, MAYBE THEY SHOULD GIVE UP AND TAKE
A POVERTY LEVEL JOB NOW. BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TRYING DESPERATELY TO FIND
A JOB, THIS IS GOING TO BE A SEVERE BLOW. FOOD AND HOSPITALITY WORKERS OF ALL
KINDS WILL HAVE HAD FEWER OPENINGS TO FILL WITHIN THE COVID ECONOMY, AND NOW
THEIR RELIEF BENEFITS WILL STOP AS WELL.
ISSUES LIKE HOW WE FEED AND HOUSE
MASSES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE, COINCIDENTALLY, ALSO BEEN FORCED FROM THEIR
APARTMENTS AND HOUSES, IS IN OUR PREDICTABLE FUTURE IF WE AREN’T VERY
LUCKY AS A NATION, AND THEY MAY BECOME A DAILY ITEM IN THE NEWS. EVENTUALLY
THAT WILL MAKE IT TO THE BALLOT BOX AS WELL. MAYBE JOE MANCHIN AND MITCH
MCCONNELL WILL MEET THE SAME FATE – THEY WILL LOSE.
FOR A LITTLE HOMEWORK ON THIS
SUBJECT GO TO GOOD OLD WIKIPEDIA’S ARTICLE ON “HOOVERVILLES.” I HAVE INCLUDED
THAT BELOW -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville.
Jobless Americans will have few options as benefits expire
By KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer
18 hrs ago [SEPTEMBER 7, 2021]
PHOTOGRAPH -- © Photo by Justin
Sullivan/Getty Images, A customer walks by a We're Hiring sign outside a Target
store on June 03, 2021 in Sausalito, California. It's estimated that roughly
8.9 million Americans will lose all or some of their unemployment benefits.
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of jobless
Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of
economic support programs for those who are still being hit financially by the
year-and-a-half-old coronavirus pandemic.
Two critical programs expired on
Monday. One provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers and another
provided benefits to those who have been unemployed more than six months.
Further, the Biden administration's $300 weekly supplemental unemployment
benefit also ran out on Monday.
It's estimated that roughly 8.9
million Americans will lose all or some of these benefits.
While the White House has encouraged
states to keep paying the $300 weekly benefit by using money from the stimulus
bills, no states have opted to do so. Many states even opted out of the federal
program early after some businesses complained that they couldn’t find enough
people to hire. The data have shown minimal economic benefits from cutting off
aid early in those states.
Economists Peter McCrory and Daniel
Silver of JPMorgan found “zero correlation″ between job growth and state
decisions to drop the federal unemployment aid, at least so far. An economist
at Columbia University, Kyle Coombs, found only minimal benefits.
The amount of money injected by the
federal government into jobless benefits since the pandemic began is nothing
short of astronomical. The roughly $650 billion, according to the nonpartisan
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, kept millions of Americans who lost
their jobs through no fault of their own in their apartments, paying for food and
gasoline, and keeping up with their bills. The banking industry has largely
attributed the few defaults on loans this past 18 months to the government
relief efforts.
“The end of the pandemic
unemployment benefits will be an abrupt jolt to millions of Americans who won’t
find a job in time for this arbitrary end to assistance,” Andrew Stettner with
the Century Foundation said in a report.
Video: Unemployment benefits expire
for over 7.5 million Americans (NBC News)
Unemployment benefits expire for
over 7.5 million Americans
The ending of these programs comes
as the U.S. economy has recovered from the pandemic, but with substantial gaps
in the recovery. The Labor Department says there are still 5.7 million fewer
jobs than before the pandemic. Yet the department also estimated, last month,
that there were roughly 10 million job openings.
These benefits are also ending
sooner than during the previous crisis, the Great Recession. In that downturn,
jobless benefits in various forms were extended from the start of the recession
in 2008-2009 all the way until 2013. When those benefits finally ended, just
1.3 million people were still receiving aid.
Americans still financially
struggling in the pandemic will find a smaller patchwork of social support
programs, both at the state level and through the federal government.
The White House approved last month
a 25% increase in food stamp assistance, also known as SNAP benefits. That
increase will continue indefinitely for those 42.7 million Americans who
receive those payments.
While the federal eviction
moratorium has expired, roughly a dozen states — all controlled by Democrats —
have extended their moratoriums, including California, New York, Washington,
Illinois and Minnesota. New York’s eviction moratorium was extended until Jan.
15.
The Biden administration also pushed
the restart of federal student loan repayments until January. Those were
supposed to have restarted this month.
Those unemployed less than six
months will still be able to collect their benefits, but the amount will fall
back to the level that each state pays. The average weekly check is roughly
$387, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, but varies
greatly state by state.
But none of these programs will have
the flexibility or direct impact as unemployment benefits being paid directly
to jobless Americans, wrote JPMorgan economists McCrory and Silver. They say
the loss of benefits could lead to job losses that potentially could offset any
of the job gains made as the economy recovers.
AP Economic Writers Chris Rugaber
and Paul Wiseman contributed to this report from Washington.
Hooverville
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A "Hooverville" was a
shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United
States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United
States during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. The
term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic
National Committee.[1] There were hundreds of Hoovervilles across the country
during the 1930s and hundreds of thousands of people lived in these slums.[2]
Background
Homelessness was present before the
Great Depression, and was a common sight before 1929. Most large cities built
municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially
increased demand. The homeless clustered in shanty towns close to free soup
kitchens. These settlements were often trespassing on private lands, but they
were frequently tolerated or ignored out of necessity. The New Deal enacted
special relief programs aimed at the homeless under the Federal Transient
Service (FTS), which operated from 1933 to 1935.[3]
Some of the men who were forced to
live in these conditions possessed construction skills, and were able to build
their houses out of stone. Most people, however, resorted to building their
residences out of wood from crates, cardboard, scraps of metal, or whatever
materials were available to them. They usually had a small stove, bedding and a
couple of simple cooking implements.[4] Men, women and children alike lived in
Hoovervilles.[5] Most of these unemployed residents of the Hoovervilles relied
on public charities or begged for food from those who had housing during this
era.
Democrats coined many terms based on
opinions of Herbert Hoover[6] such as "Hoover blanket" (old newspaper
used as blanketing). A "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned
inside out and "Hoover leather" was cardboard used to line a shoe
when the sole wore through. A "Hoover wagon" was an automobile with
horses hitched to it, often with the engine removed.[7]
After 1940 the economy recovered,
unemployment fell, and shanty housing eradication programs destroyed all the
Hoovervilles.[8]
Notable Hoovervilles
PHOTOGRAPH -- Police with batons
confront demonstrators armed with bricks and clubs. A policeman and a
demonstrator wrestle over a US flag. Bonus Army marchers confront the police.
Among the hundreds of Hoovervilles
across the U.S. during the 1930s were those in:
Anacostia in the District of
Columbia: The Bonus Army, a group of World War I veterans seeking expedited
benefits, established a Hooverville in 1932. Many of these men came from afar,
illegally by riding on railroad freight trains to join the movement.[9] At its
maximum there were 15,000 people living there.[10] The camp was demolished by
units of the U.S. Army, commanded by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
Central Park, New York City: Scores
of homeless families camped out at the Great Lawn at Central Park, then an
empty reservoir.[11]
Riverside Park, New York City: A
shantytown occupied Riverside Park at 72nd Street during the depression.[12]
Seattle had eight Hoovervilles
during the 1930s.[13] Its largest Hooverville on the tidal flats adjacent to
the Port of Seattle lasted from 1932 to 1941.[14]
St. Louis in 1930 had the largest
Hooverville in America. It consisted of four distinct sectors. St. Louis's
racially integrated Hooverville depended upon private philanthropy, had an
unofficial mayor, created its own churches and other social institutions, and
remained a viable community until 1936, when the federal Works Progress
Administration allocated slum clearance funds for the area.[15]
. . . .
See also
*Potemkin village -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
In politics and economics, a
Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose
is to provide an external façade to a country which is faring poorly, making
people believe that the country is faring better. The term comes from stories
of a fake portable village built solely to impress Empress Catherine II by her
former lover Grigory Potemkin, during her journey to Crimea in 1787. . . . .
Reaganville -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_v._Community_for_Creative_Non-Violence
Clark v. Community for Creative
Non-Violence, 468 U.S. 288 (1982), is a United States Supreme Court case with
the National Park Service's regulation which specifically prohibited sleeping
in Lafayette Park and the National Mall at issue.[1] The Community for Creative
Non-Violence (CCNV)[2] group had planned to hold a demonstration on the
National Mall and Lafayette Park where they would erect tent cities to raise
awareness of the situation of the homeless. The group obtained the correct
permits for a seven-day demonstration starting on the first day of winter. The
Park Service however denied the request that participants be able to sleep in
the tents. The CCNV challenged this regulation on the basis that it violated
their First Amendment right.[1]
Background
The Community for Creative
Non-Violence is a group based in Washington D.C. with a mission "to ensure
that the rights of the homeless and poor are not infringed upon and that every
person has access to life's basic essentials -- food, shelter, clothing and
medical care".[2] . . . .
Opinion of the Court
The Supreme Court issued its
decision on June 29, 1984 and in a 7-2 majority vote in favor of the National
Park Service, it held that the regulations did not violate the First Amendment.
The Court stressed that expression is subject to reasonable time, place, and manner
restrictions, also that the means of the protest went against the government's
interest in maintaining the condition of the national parks. The Court felt
that the protest was not being threatened altogether and that it could take
place in a park where sleeping was permitted. In essence because the
demonstrators could find alternative ways of voicing their message their First
Amendment right was safe. The regulation in question is also considered to be
content neutral meaning the regulation did not have a bias against a particular
message.[15] . . . .
THERE IS A NEED FOR ALL OF THE
NATIONS INVOLVED IN THIS INTERNATIONAL MESS, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN CENTRAL
AMERICA, TO FIND AND IMPLEMENT CONCRETE PLANS, FIRST, TO MAKE LIFE WITHIN THEIR
OWN BORDERS MUCH MORE LIVABLE FOR THE WHOLE POPULATION AND, SECOND, TO ENFORCE
BORDER SECURITY WITHIN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. THEN, OF COURSE, THERE ARE THE “COYOTES.”
THE HUMAN SMUGGLERS, THE “COYOTES,” DESERVE
TEN YEARS AT LEAST OF PRISON TIME FOR THEIR CRIME, BUT THE ACTUAL PENALTIES
VARY. SOMETIMES THE SMUGGLER WILL BE A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER, FOR INSTANCE,
AND SOMETIMES IT IS A PROFESSIONAL SMUGGLER AND PEOPLE MAY DIE AS A RESULT OF
THEIR JOURNEY. THOSE PENALTIES CAN BE SEVERE, AS THEY SHOULD BE. STILL, I HAVEN’T
SEEN MANY NEWS ARTICLES ON THE ARREST AND TRIAL OF A HUMAN SMUGGLER. ARE THEY
OFTEN CAUGHT AND CONVICTED? FOR MORE ON THAT, SEE: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/smuggling-noncitizens-into-the-us-possible-legal-consequences.html
MEXICO SHOULDN’T BE LEFT WITH THE WHOLE
RESPONSIBILITY OF CONTAINING THE SITUATION. YET, THEY COULD SURELY HELP TO
CONVINCE THE OTHERS TO COOPERATE, OR AT LEAST MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO DO SO. DO THEY
HAVE ANY INFLUENCE OVER THEM? THE NYT ARTICLE BELOW DOES CONTAIN REFERENCES TO
TALKS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY BETWEEN THE US AND MEXICAN GOVERNMENTS TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT
ON HOW TO MANAGE THE FLOW OF PEOPLE FROM THE SOUTH.
As Migrants Surge Toward Border, Court Hands Biden a Lifeline
Desperate to control the unrelenting buildup on the border, Biden administration officials turn their focus to deterring migration, dashing hopes of asylum seekers.
By Natalie KitroeffPhotographs by Daniele Volpe
Published Sept. 6, 2021
Updated Sept. 7, 2021, 4:04 p.m. ET
PHOTOGRAPH -- Migrants, mostly from
Central America and Haiti, waiting on the International Bridge last month in
Matamoros, Mexico, to enter the United States to request asylum.
MATAMOROS, Mexico — When the Supreme
Court effectively revived a cornerstone of Trump-era migration policy late last
month, it looked like a major defeat for President Biden.
After all, Mr. Biden had condemned
the policy — which requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico — as “inhumane”
and suspended it on his first day in office, part of an aggressive push to
dismantle former President Donald J. Trump’s harshest migration policies.
But among some Biden officials, the
Supreme Court’s order was quietly greeted with something other than dismay,
current and former officials said: It brought some measure of relief.
Before that ruling, Mr. Biden’s
steps to begin loosening the reins on migration had been quickly followed by a
surge of people heading north, overwhelming the southwest border of the United
States. Apprehensions of migrants hit a two-decade high in July, a trend
officials fear will continue into the fall.
Concern had already been building
inside the Biden administration that the speed of its immigration changes may
have encouraged migrants to stream toward the United States, current and former
officials said.
In fact, some Biden officials were
already talking about reviving Mr. Trump’s policy in a limited way to deter
migration, said the officials, who have worked on immigration policy but were
not authorized to speak publicly about the administration’s internal debates on
the issue. Then the Supreme Court order came, providing the Biden
administration with the political cover to adopt the policy in some form
without provoking as much ire from Democrats who reviled Mr. Trump’s border
policies.
Now, the officials say, they have an
opportunity to take a step back, come up with a more humane version of Mr.
Trump’s policy and, they hope, reduce the enormous number of people arriving at
the border.
PHOTOGRAPH -- Brownsville, Tex.,
from Matamoros, Mexico, to seek asylum. Border Patrol agents checking the
documents of migrants trying to cross into Brownsville, Tex., from Matamoros,
Mexico, to seek asylum.
“This desire to reverse Trump’s
policies and to do so quickly has landed the Biden administration in this
predicament, which was not unpredictable and is very sad to watch,” said Alan
Bersin, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under
President Barack Obama.
The policy at the center of the case
— commonly known as Remain in Mexico — quickly became one of the most
contentious elements of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda because it upended
central provisions of the nation’s asylum system. Instead of allowing migrants
to enter the United States while the courts assessed their claims, it made
thousands of asylum seekers wait in squalid encampments in Mexico rife with
reports of kidnappings, extortion and other serious abuses.
After Mr. Biden suspended the
policy, Texas and Missouri sued the administration, arguing that the influx of
people “imposed severe and ongoing burdens” on the states. The Supreme Court
refused to block a lower court’s ruling that required the restoration of the
program, forcing the Biden administration to comply with it while the appeals
process unfolds.
PHOTOGRAPH -- Migrants sheltering at
a church in Matamoros.
But the ambivalence within corners
of the Biden administration reflects a broader worry: that the border crisis
could have electoral repercussions for the Democrats, potentially dooming hopes
of pushing through a more significant overhaul of the nation’s migration and
asylum systems.
“They are backed into a corner on
their broader immigration agenda,” Doris Meissner, the commissioner of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1993 to 2000, said of the Biden
administration. “The only tools that are available in the near term are pretty
much pure enforcement.”
After coming to office, Mr. Biden
not only allowed migrants to apply for asylum in the United States, but he also
refused to immediately expel unaccompanied children and moved to freeze
deportations.
As migrants surged to the border,
Republicans attacked the new administration on multiple fronts, forcing the
president to retreat from key campaign promises and angering some in his base.
PHOTOGRAPH -- Migrants lining up for health services in
Matamoros.
Mr. Biden has, in turn, leaned on
Mexico and Central America to step up their own border enforcement. But the
efforts have not meaningfully curbed the flows north, and they have led to
violent attacks on migrants by law enforcement in those countries.
While the administration tried to
change the welcoming tone it set early on, dispatching Vice President Kamala
Harris to Guatemala to proclaim the border closed in June, migrants and smugglers
say the encouraging signals sent at the outset of Mr. Biden’s term are all
anyone remembers.
“‘We heard the news that the U.S.
opened the borders,’” said Abraham Barberi, a pastor in the border city of
Matamoros, recounting what migrants routinely tell him. So many came to town
that Mr. Barberi turned his church into a migrant shelter soon after Mr. Biden
came to office, as mothers and their toddlers started showing up at his door.
PHOTOGRAPH -- Abraham Barberi, a
pastor, with migrants outside his church in Matamoros, which has become a
shelter for migrants.
“The Biden administration said,
‘We’re going to let people in,’” Mr. Barberi said, zigzagging between the thin
mattresses that now cover the church floors. “That’s when everyone flooded.”
Thousands of asylum seekers were
gradually let into the United States after Mr. Biden ended the Trump policy of
forcing them to wait in Mexico, according to the Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which tracks migration data. But almost
immediately, Mr. Barberi said, a gusher of new migrants showed up.
So Mr. Barberi crammed dozens of
bunk beds into Bible school classrooms and filled shelves with diapers, baby
formula and medicine. If the Remain in Mexico policy does return, Mr. Barberi
said, “we’re going to have a lot of people stuck here.”
PHOTOGRAPH -- Migrants at Mr.
Barberi’s church in Matamoros.
Among them is Marilin Lopéz, who
fled Honduras with her son in 2019 after facing constant death threats. When
she got to Mexico, she said, a trafficker handed her to armed men who held her
hostage for months. After coming up with the ransom and finally making it to
the border, she said, she ran into two of her kidnappers in Matamoros and went
into hiding, leaving her unable to show up for some of her asylum appointments.
Under Mr. Trump, the United States
granted asylum to less than 2 percent of all applicants under the Remain in
Mexico policy, according to the Syracuse University clearinghouse. Most of the
people who were denied asylum missed court dates, like Ms. Lopéz, who was too
terrified to walk around in Matamoros, a city the State Department warns
Americans against visiting because of “crime and kidnapping.”
In late August, after the Biden
administration said it would reopen some of those cases, Ms. Lopéz applied to
make her claim for protection one more time.
Days later, Ms. Lopéz received a
text message from United Nations representatives assisting her petition: All
cases were on pause while they awaited clarity after the Supreme Court
decision.
“They killed all our hope,” Ms.
Lopéz said. “The Biden government promised many things, and now we feel
tricked.”
It is not yet clear exactly how the
Biden administration will respond to the Supreme Court’s ruling, though
officials in the United States and in Mexico say discussions about implementing
a new version of Remain in Mexico have already begun.
PHOTOGRAPH -- The dining room in Mr.
Barberi’s church.
Roberto Velasco, the Mexican Foreign
Ministry’s chief officer for North America, said in a statement that the
Supreme Court would not dictate Mexico’s migration policy, “which is determined
and executed with sovereignty.”
Mexico recently proposed forming a
working group with the United States, Mr. Velasco said, “to manage the
extraordinary flows that both countries are seeing.” He said Mexico would
oppose any move to reopen encampments along the border — a move that would be
politically challenging in the United States as well. When Dr. Jill Biden
toured the Matamoros camp in 2019, she described it as heartbreaking.
“I’ve witnessed the pain of refugees
around the world, but seeing it at our own border felt like a betrayal,” Dr.
Biden said in a Twitter post after the visit, adding, “This cruelty is not who
we are.”
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These everyday things didn't exist before 9/11. Now they're trillion-dollar industries.
BY RACHEL LAYNE, DAN PATTERSON
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 / 12:06 PM / MONEYWATCH
From the internet cloud and your
smartphone to the TSA, daily life in the U.S. has changed dramatically since
that awful September day in 2001.
Take air travel. Before 9/11,
security at airports was mostly privately run, and may have included walking
through a metal detector. Passengers could take baseball bats and blades up to
4 inches on the plane; family members could go through security to the gate to
say goodbye; identification wasn't always required and nobody took off their
shoes. Passengers typically needed to arrive 30 minutes before their flight.
Remembering 9/11
Nobody had a smartphone, social
media didn't exist, biometrics were in their infancy, Alexa may have been
someone's nickname and "the cloud" was a weather term. Tracking
someone by satellite via street cameras or GPS on their phone still seemed like
science fiction.
Here are some of the biggest changes
— and their price tags — two decades later.
Homeland and Transportation Security
The Transportation Security
Administration was created under a law enacted in November 2001.
TSA employs more than 50,000
security employees and screens more than 2 million passengers daily (or roughly
750 million a year.) The TSA budget hit more than $8.4 billion in 2021.
The TSA's PreCheck program is now
used in 200 airports and by 80 airlines across the country. Passengers who sign
up with TSA for a security check can skip some commonplace measures, like
taking off your shoes. But it also requires you to submit detailed personal
information for a background check, raising some privacy concerns.
The TSA collects a passenger fee for
each ticket sold by commercial airlines, commonly called the "9/11
fee." According to the TSA website, in 2019, those fees totaled $4.3
billion (they fell to $2.5 billion in 2020, the first year of the global
pandemic, as fewer people traveled.)
Biometrics use on the rise
Biometrics, such as fingerprints and
even facial recognition software, are also much more widely used. And it's all
digital. While airline passengers aren't required to use it, the TSA and
Customs and Border Protection see potential for more efficient passenger
screening.
Customs and Border Patrol is testing
facial recognition at Wayne County Airport in Detroit.
Some privacy advocates have concerns
with data collection and the government's use of private contractors to assist
it as biometrics become more pervasive.
Surveillance "gold rush"
"It's been a surveillance gold
rush over the last two decades — a lot of companies have entered the space, a
lot of companies have expanded into the space, simply through the amount of
money thrown at it by state and federal governments," said Albert Fox
Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and a critic of
data collection.
The tech industry's embrace of big
data "is a direct response to public funding," he said.
For almost two decades the IT
industry has been one of the fastest growing sectors in the U.S. And, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, computer science jobs are expected to grow
11% over the next decade.
The cloud and the smartphone
Two major technological innovations
had a major impact on the economy, politics and everyday life for Americans in
the years following 9/11: smartphones and the cloud.
The cloud is digital infrastructure
that supports web technology, social networks, business tools and apps.
Smartphones are essentially miniature supercomputers that work with the cloud
and serve as Swiss Army Knife-like tools, TechRepublic editor-in-chief Bill
Detwiler said. And devices become more powerful every year, in large part
because of apps and cloud computing capabilities.
"No single digital device has
had a more profound effect on the past twenty years than the smartphone,"
Detwiler said. "These devices help us work, learn, shop, ensure we don't
get lost, track our health, warn us during emergencies and of course help us
communicate."
In 2001 there were fewer than 500
million people connected to the internet. Today, nearly 7.1 billion people are
online largely because of smartphones.
The most popular phone in 2001 was
the Nokia 8250, a candy bar-shaped device that ably managed calls, texting and
little else. The company, which was a massive mobile handset maker at the time,
sold about 140 million total units that year.
In contrast, Apple sold 57 million
iPhones in the first quarter of 2021 alone. Analysts forecast the Apple's
market cap could soon top $3 trillion, a valuation propelled by the success of
the iPhone and other mobile devices.
The modern cloud is ubiquitous and
enormously powerful, Detwiler said. Cloud computing means software and services
that run on a network of dedicated servers. The term was first referenced in
1996 in a business plan by Compaq, but it didn't find a market until 2006, when
Amazon launched Cloud Compute, a service that let developers offload computing
to the company's servers and software.
More tech innovations
Today, the mobile processor industry
is valued at almost $10 billion and modern chips are so powerful, they can
power laptops and crunch big AI algorithms. In the future, mobile processors
will be baked into a wide variety of sensors and so-called Internet of Things
devices.
Contemporary artificial intelligence
and machine learning are automation technologies that unlock our phones, help
us with navigation, and help business operate more efficiently. These
technologies are powerful and useful because of the cloud and big data produced
by mobile devices.
In 2001 Microsoft released MSN
Messenger and Friendster was in its infancy. Today, Facebook has 2.8 billion
users and is valued at more than $1 trillion. The tech giant and other social
media apps rely on the cloud and mobile devices for the data that make their
algorithms and ad targeting systems so effective.
CBS News' Irina Ivanova contributed
reporting.
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