Cruise liner docks in Georgetown
February 6, 2012 | By KNews | Filed Under News
As the country continues to gain international recognition among tour operators, the cruise liner MV Vista Mar cruise ship docked at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation’s (GNSC’s) wharf yesterday, with over 300 passengers and crew members on board.
This marks the 2nd anchorage for the German-flag carrier which has a carrying capacity of 400.
It is the first cruise liner to dock in Guyana for the year.
While the ship was docked at the GNSC wharf, its passengers were allowed a few hours to shop at the La Penitence Market, and some chose to tour other parts of the city. Read more
Last March this cruise liner made its first visit to Guyana. Here was the report:
https://guyaneseonline.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/vista-mar-cruise-ship-docks-in-guyana/
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Hard at Work in the Jobless Future – Commentary
Hard at Work in the Jobless Future – Commenary
Jobs are disappearing, but there’s still a future for work. An investment manager looks at how automation and information technology are changing the economic landscape and forcing workers to forge new career paths beyond outdated ideas about permanent employment.
Futurists have long been following the impacts of automation on jobs—not just in manufacturing, but also increasingly in white-collar work. Those in financial services, for example, are being lost to software algorithms, and intelligent computers.*
Terms used for this phenomenon include “off-peopling” and “othersourcing.” As Jared Weiner of Weiner, Edrich, Brown recently observed, “Those jobs are not going to return—they can be done more efficiently and error-free by intelligent software.”
In the investment business (in which I work), we are seeing the replacement of financial analysts with quantitative analytic systems, and floor traders with trading algorithms. Mutual funds and traditional portfolio managers now compete against ETFs (exchange-traded funds), many of which offer completely automated strategies.
Industries that undergo this transformation don’t disappear, but the number of jobs that they support changes drastically. Consider the business of farming, which employed half the population in the early 1900s but now provides just 3% of all jobs. The United States is still a huge exporter of food; it is simply a far more efficient food producer now in terms of total output per farm worker. Continue reading →
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