Lenore Skenazy's'free-range' parenting style is the basis of a new Utah law; she shares insight on'The Next Revolution.' Is there a "simple fix" to help quell kids' anxieties in an increasingly fast-paced and interconnected world? With the rise of the electronic world – social media, cable TV, 24-hour news – parents have adopted ways to protect children from unsafe spaces or disturbing content that makes kids more afraid or grow up too fast. But parents may have overcompensated, some argue. Perhaps parents led kids to their gradual decline in independence in recent decades, leading psychologist Dr. Camilo Ortiz and "Let Grow" nonprofit director Lenore Skenazy to ask "what if the problem was simply that kids are growing up so overprotected that they're scared of the world?" "If so, the solution would be simple, too," the duo wrote in a recent New York Times guest essay. "Start letting them do more things on their own."

Automation in artificial intelligence has an extensive effect on the economy. Industrialists and giant companies all over the world are further adapting to the idea of automation in artificial intelligence. In India, technological progress, is the main driver of growth of GDP per capita, allowing output to increase faster than labor and capital. Technology increases productivity by decreasing the number of labor hours needed to create a unit of output. An increment in labor productivity generally translates into increases in average wages, allowing workers to cut back on work hours and to afford more goods and services.

Industrialists and giant companies all over the world are further adapting to the idea of automation in artificial intelligence. In India, technological progress, is the main driver of growth of GDP per capita, allowing output to increase faster than labor and capital. Technology increases productivity by decreasing the number of labor hours needed to create a unit of output. An increment in labor productivity generally translates into increases in average wages, allowing workers to cut back on work hours and to afford more goods and services. AI should be welcomed for its potential economic benefits.

Decades of technological change have polarized the earnings of the American workforce, helping highly educated white-collar workers thrive, while hollowing out the middle class. Yet present-day advances like robots and artificial intelligence do not spell doom for middle-tier or lower-wage workers, since innovations create jobs as well. With better policies in place, more people could enjoy good careers even as new technology transforms workplaces. The report, "The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines," was released today, and the task force is hosting an online conference on Wednesday, the "AI & the Future of Work Congress." At the core of the task force's findings: A robot-driven jobs apocalypse is not on the immediate horizon.

Artificial intelligence implies automation beyond the physical. It implies the automation of the tasks that recently took a living brain to finish things like discussion, data analysis, even driving. Also, eventually, AI is nothing new; computer scientists have been talking about and building it throughout recent decades. What's changed is the availability of cheap computing, advances in algorithm coding, and an abundance of newly available data. We've quite recently had this really good synergy as the innovation and the algorithms both developed simultaneously.

Scientists have extracted a 400-year record of El Niño events using coral reef cores drilled from the Pacific Ocean, revealing crucial new insight on how these weather patterns have changed. And, the data so far suggest something'unusual' has been happening in recent decades. According to the new research, El Niño events appear to be cropping up more frequently in the central Pacific than they have in past centuries, and while eastern El Niños may be getting stronger. El Niño is caused by a shift in the distribution of warm water in the Pacific Ocean around the equator. Usually the wind blows strongly from east to west, due to the rotation of the Earth, causing water to pile up in the western part of the Pacific.

As technology has continued to accelerate in recent decades, workers throughout many industries have faced an increasingly real threat of having their positions become obsolete, be it due to changing economic forces or new innovations that allow employers to replace them with automated processes. One recent innovation has been that of voice-activated hardware and software, specifically thinking of platforms such as Amazon's Alexa. Tech experts have said that this platform has spread rapidly, so much so that they expect it to become an even larger part of the way we interface with all things digital in the coming years. Even now in the early phase of this latest tech progression, some in the hospitality sector have embraced tech like Amazon's Alexa (or other products similar to it) in order to serve their guests. As a result of this, some hotel staff members have begun to worry that Amazon Alexa and other voice-activated platforms could soon replace them, greeting and attending to guests at the front desk the way humans generally do now.

The history of robots taking over human jobs is long and littered with doomsday predictions. Just last May, mega-manufacturer Foxconn reportedly replaced 60,000 workers with automated technology. Amazon's warehouses thrive on machines that can move packages. And as Martin Ford, author of the New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots tells it, this tech will only replace more jobs in the coming decade -- even in traditional white-collar office roles. Ford keynoted Orange Silicon Valley's "A.I. and the Future of Corporate Finance" event, which welcomed a panel of experts to OSV's Spear Street space to discuss the role that artificial intelligence has to place in bookkeeping and auditing operations.

What do you think of when you hear the word "technology"? Do you think of jet planes and laboratory equipment and underwater farming? Or do you think of smartphones and machine-learning algorithms? When a grave-faced announcer on CNBC says "technology stocks are down today," we all know he means Facebook and Apple, not Boeing and Pfizer. To Thiel, this signals a deeper problem in the American economy, a shrinkage in our belief of what's possible, a pessimism about what is really likely to get better. Our definition of what technology is has narrowed, and he thinks that narrowing is no accident. "Technology gets defined as'that which is changing fast,'" he says. "If the other things are not defined as'technology,' we filter them out and we don't even look at them." He founded PayPal and Palantir, was one of the earliest investors in Facebook, and now sits atop a fortune estimated in the billions. We spoke in his sleek, floor-to-ceiling-windowed apartment overlooking Manhattan -- a palace built atop the riches of the IT revolution.