coming up next shift living in the digital age looks at how workers are fighting back against digital surveillance all that more coming up thank you so much for watching i think i want. is for me. is for you. is for health. beethoven is for. is for the. beethoven is for. beethoven is for. beethoven 202250th anniversary here on. a drop off in an hour i bet a hari algorithms organize my work days and write my performance what does that mean for me digital control when apps tell you how to do your job our topic today on shimmed. brave new digital workspace normal fixed hours working from the comfort of home and everything you need at your fingertips through your smartphone visualization has already greatly shaped the workforce especially in the service industry nearly half of the employees worldwide work in this sector in germany they make up 3 quarters what is it like to receive assignments from i phone we asked a by korea. exercising. receiving job requests by phone meeting friends and getting paid for it all but the life of a by korea may not be quite as great as companies would like

but we're dealing with a kind of digital early capitalism it's as if new digital factories were popping up there's no regulation so we need a process involving labor struggles and they're already happening for. example google employees are trying to organize in unions they say the company has been blocking them and some even reports having been sacked. but the company denies this. i actually recognize many developments in this digital platform economy that we know from the history of the workers movement as of course the over drivers today are organized very differently than in facebook groups and they call wildcat strikes kind of post-modern union movement and i think that's a positive development or i definitely welcome it. so there's still hope but many of these checks and balances already part of labor law at least in germany the large into that corporations are not too happy about them before tech giants. facebook and amazon or operate worldwide and set themselves above national regulation in most countries they can avoid taxes and use the monopolies to their advantage national day

brave new digital worked. base. working from the comfort of home and everything you need at your fingertips through your smartphone visualization has already greatly shaped the workforce especially in the service industry nearly half of the employees worldwide work in this sector in germany they make up 3 quarters what is it like to receive assignments from i phone we asked a by korea. exercising our receiving job requests by phone meeting friends and getting paid for it all but the life of a by korea may not be quite as great as companies would like you to say only contract employees have a guaranteed income to. get their assignments through enough insurers and algorithm decides how much they will. let algorithms only consider performance criteria such as speed position and reliability they don't care about the human being behind the data self employed under these conditions of the so called economy they fight for any short commission. university lecturer a team specializes in the working conditions of the digital

so you have a digital puppet of yourself. so this is how i'm going to live in the digital world. digital avatar emilia happening now. it is, yeah. ok, no pressure no pressure. don't mess it up. this new technology means emilia 2.0 can be puppeted in real—time across different platforms and by anyone without my input. while luke starts building my avatar, i'm going to meet christine misano, the co—founder of dna block, to see what i can do with my avatar and if she can earn me any money. christine is a former model. i think i've still got it, so i think i can probably win. she's given up modelling so she can build her tech company but her avatar, christine 2.0, is still being hired to work the catwalk, modelling digital clothes forfashion brands. as you see, avatar christine does get it perfect every time. so you probably do want to hire her, but what's interesting about this particular version of her is that it's my body motion capture, so that is my walk, that is my stop and it is my turnaround so she really is sort of embodying me on the runway there. what else can i do with di

living in the digital world shift. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine let me all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters d. w. made for minds. a job offer in an hour i bet a hari algorithms organize my work days and write my performance what does that mean for me digital control when apps tell you how to do your job i want topic today on shift. our. brave new digital workspace normal fixed i was working from the comfort of home and everything you need at your fingertips through your smartphone visualization and. already greatly shape the workforce especially in the service industry nearly half of the employees worldwide work in this sector in germany they make up 3 quarters what is it like to receive assignments from a phone we asked a by career. exercising our receiving job requests by meeting friends and getting paid for it all but the life of a by korea may not be quite as great as companies would like you to say o

bear commissioner for digital affairs. are policymakers prepared for digital transformation. but the critics say. it's easy to see how problematic it is everyone bubbles about on their own with no overarching plan i think it's disastrous. when i look when everyone is in charge and then no one really has switched and they sure as human side there has to be a minister at the top jihad with an allocated budget and staff in order to quote were named and guide others who are responsible. in theory to our tape it is minister of state for digitalisation in practice she will do little actual power come must both of you have to take there has no budget and she just serves as window dressing shells of the government can say we take digitalisation seriously but they won't give her the main challenge the market so i really appreciate her as a colleague but she lacks the support of the budget and the power within the cabinet to make progress with precisely these issues influence of time as one skips internet sites model of us crime section a section as often as we send a very a no use cry

so you have a digital puppet of yourself. so this is how i'm going to live in the digital world.ilia happening now. it is, yeah. ok, no pressure no pressure. don't mess it up. this new technology means emilia 2.0 can be puppeted in real—time across different platforms and by anyone without my input. while luke starts building my avatar, i'm going to meet christine misano, the co—founder of dna block, to see what i can do with my avatar and if she can earn me any money. christine is a former model. i think i've still got it, so i think i can probably win. she's given up modelling so she can build her tech company but her avatar, christine 2.0, is still being hired to work the catwalk, modelling digital clothes forfashion brands. as you see, avatar christine does get it perfect every time. so you probably do want to hire her, but what's interesting about this particular version of her is that it's my body motion capture, so that is my walk, that is my stop and it is my turnaround so she really is sort of embodying me on the runway there. what else can i do with digital christine? w

well, 2020 has been a very busy yearfor my digital well, 2020 has been a very busy year for my digitales and worked as a chat box. i have walked the ru nway chat box. i have walked the runway for new york and paris fashion week, modelling clothes from designer mahlon brought on. my avatar has also been signed up by a new start—up called hour one to carry outermost interviews as in hr assista nt? outermost interviews as in hr assistant? where do you see yourself in five years? while i did consent to all of these jobs, so far i haven't made any money. but with the pandemic and finding us to our homes and computer screens, curtains digital humans soon lose their novelty altogether? cameron james wilson is already exploring new creative frontiers. do you think people wa nt frontiers. do you think people want different things now?” would really love to see fashion brands experiment more with nonhuman characters, you know, things that are a little bit more different, out there. it is really inspired by my love for science fiction movies and comics. she isjust kind of my little experiment, yo

do they have a vision for germany's digital future this film accompanies federal commissioner for digital affairs over t.v. alamosa isn't mobile 1st its mobile any. experts are watching a global race unfold between policymakers and businesses as they have by for digital power or in the midst of a societal are people who is going to wind up battle between these 2 grand systems politics and technology europe has fallen behind in the digital sector the german politicians have wasted at least a decade big tech companies today know more about us and this fancy. the question is who wields power on the internet welcome to the digital age. this is the town of marvin harder in north rhine-westphalia. this is where shanghai based thomas darks and used to live his parents still live here and he used to work for the savings bank before. became an influencer now he produces promo clips for german companies along with his wife the pain. killer was in china stacks and has 10000000 online followers many people watches videos like this one where he promotes the schoolbag brand go bag in china he's known a

digital cash. keep track of money in a ledger, just like using paper checks or debit cards and that's indeed what the earliest project in pre ducting the future of digital cash assumed would be the case. this is t the computers of tom, in the atlantic much may 1964. the same magazines in which bush published as we may think, the landmark document that helped to inspire hypertext and greenberg predicts many other things which became more or less true that computers were going to dramatilly transform commerce. and they would do that through comprehensive surveillance, a system that could quietly police how money was trance acted. who would have access to what and which electronic notes were authentic, real were truly issued. that attitude changed over the course of the folwing decade this fantastic aicle by paul armor, who has been at the center for advanced study, behavioral sciences at stanford, worked at the department of defense, the johnnie appleseed of cold war computing. he warned congress of

it's not the means of the digital gold currencies of particular importance for people of digital cash project it wasn't the scarcity of gold. going back to the archives it is like going back into the archives of archivists. if these maintained sheets that told you how it was created every single time it was tested in every shelf it has sat on in every country and context and every time someone physically handled it. a kind of knowledge that may ring a bell for us. people in the creators alike proposed ideas for digital cash as a kind of verifiable collected all of the production of money something that would allow them to somehow measure and a snapshot of the overall shape and quantity of their money in the world in the way that they could more or less of you for precious metals. i started going to the libertarian events in new hampshire in the mid-20s since i was working on this but because they were the only places i could find where attachable day-to-day transactions were being conducted in the crypto currencies and precious metals. i'm sure many of you can already guess, but the r

it could result in the widespread adoption of this digital r. and b. to be used in emerging markets economies and international trade so countries would actually no longer be beholden and dependent on the u.s. dollar for trade. is the chinese populace or for that matter any populace anywhere in the world ready for something like this that is so revolutionary how do you get people to suddenly start using digital currency instead of their credit cards in their regular news in for the last so many groups of years i mean that is kind of emerging economies to begin with because that is actually the economies that are most comfortable with using things as digital content digital currencies such as china and such as india countries emerging economies with large populations of people people who don't have access to a bank account to actually don't own credit cards who have never own credit cards but every single one of them own mobile phones all of them are connected to the internet and because of that all of them have been using accounts such as things simila

digital currency. so that's one. then even though there's been endorsement from institutional investors and public companies including from pay pal, which i actually allowed its customers to use crypto currency. so that's a positive for bit coy. and that's the reason why many analysts are coming with wide projections ranging from $25000.00 to believe, believe me or not, that's 300000 dollars. there's also some estimate by an analyst. and that's enough to actually buy you an apartment in washington. any city in germany as responder in frankfurt, hoping you have your apartment all set up. thanks for this reporting. and finally, the german government agreed on wednesday to extend the lockdown measures related to the coronavirus pandemic until december 20th. that means bars, restaurants and entertainment. venues must stay shut. now, a restaurant owner in frankfurt expressed his displeasure at this by filling his tables with 100 stuffed toy andas. they were served with freshly prepared food and drinks like

digital technology from further increasing harmful emissions. and not to another digital solution in this era of mass produced goods you don't already know exactly what you are buying a lot of course medics for example contain micro plastics but what can you do to avoid them. well during your birth. chart the content of the products before they buy them. it can provide detailed information on about her to 1000000 different products maybe your sample is about. the shelves of shops and supermarkets are lined with products packaged in plastic but there are micro plastics hidden inside some products too especially cosmetics so how can consumers stick a report next containing the tiny bits of plastic help is now at hand with an app called coaching a barcode scanner and reveals a complete list of our products contents as well as an overall rating of its eco friend in this. great even the courts are actually based on experts like greenpeace w w f our friends of the earth also we have our own scientific team who are its products based on latest scientif

they'll have the biggest digital footprint of any previous generation as you said probably by the time they wanted to use of their more photos of them they know they grandparents and right current right their parents put together for their entire lots and the amount of video and just a digital. footprints a pretty big now because from the youngest age there are there on social channels that chatting and sharing and and so they just leave a long legacy a long history that can be great in that i have if you like a digital diary i have it a digital history that i can look back on and and recall stages in life it has a downside be cruise well when you're a teenager you share things and say things that you probably don't want coming back to you 10 or 20 years lyta when you're a senior leader or an influence so there are some problems with this and we see very plainly one big problem that this younger generation faces through the digital and that is cyber bullying putting down each other sometimes that they will say things that will shape things that will threaten our own one among. things t

to digital but even in-store has gotten more digital.re seeing blurring between online and off-line. obviously, more and more people are shopping online but not even when they are going into the store, they don't want to touch cash anymore. they want to use cards or qr codes. the other thing you are seeing is that 40% to 70% of consumers don't want to touch cash anymore so you're really seeing a decline in the usage of cash which is why you are seeing a version and digital payments. emily: could this lead to the disappearance of cash, would you say? dan: i think a lot of people predicted the demise of cash and have been wrong over the years but there is no question that the use of cash and the prevalence of cash in transactions is dropping somewhat precipitously and whatever that trend rate was, it is now much more accelerated. emily: what are you expecting to see then as we head into the holiday season? dan: yeah, well, i think there are a couple of different things we are going to see. first of all, you've got over 50% of the populatio

what is china doing that we here in america for example are not well get this is now testing a new digital currency so here is what we know china's central bank is confirming today that it's going to be testing a mobile app for storing and exchanging the war on not as a paper entity by the way but rather as a digital like for example. the world learned about this when this screenshot appeared on social media take a look at that right there see it you can see there from the image that this appears to be sort of a marketing tool to get citizens chinese citizens comfortable with the idea of using and trusting digital currency now it's important to mention that china is stressing that this really is quote only a test but is it and if it isn't why are they so ahead of the game at this point force right forbes one of the world's leading business periodicals is warning the white house right now the trepan ministration not to continue its present course of banning and attacking cryptocurrency in fact let me show you this recent headline from forbes it says quote why try should unveil a u.s. answer

the digital. groups and make them more savvy. digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays there's no way around the need to optimize people's digital skill sets. health care workers have emerged as the real heroes of this pandemic we cheered them on banging on pots and pans from our balconies and applauding on street corners we realized how important they are and realized that just. willing to stick out. in times of so much uncertainty and anxiety it's a dangerous job it can cost you your life and just look at what nurses get paid in germany in comparison to senior physicians business consultants. they are just a 3rd. that's a real scandal. germany is one of the richest countries in the world its health is just. since the coronavirus hit they've been recognised as key workers for the w.h.o. says there is a global shortfall of 6000000 nurses. poorer countries are the biggest problem many of their nurses move to more affluent countries in search of better pay but here too they aren't part

does actually move to this national digital current. see how does that affect decentralized currencies such as a big point that really become true competitors to than the digital dollar. well i mean if the us does adopt the same b.b.c. which is a very real possibility right now but quantum would be more valuable than ever because it's exactly what ben said they're not even competitors this is like comparing apples to oranges because the central digital bank currency will never replace because that is not a true crypto currency it's still centrally monitored and maintained it will still be subject to exact same problems that currency has today they'll still be subject to inflation and they're open to manipulation by central banks and make it even easier for the central banks to either tighten or loosen the quiddity over so c.d.'s these are merely a digital version of the our currency which makes it more dangerous than ever because that means every single purchase every single action will be tracked and we just talked about the currency c

will create this digital currency even in the near future. i think as an area likely because the pressure is certainly mounting for the u.s. to create the c.b.c. as its biggest competitor and the tech arms race just recently began testing its own digital currency that will be launched on we chat and so for us this means that they will fall further behind they've already lost the battle over 5 g. to china so now it's going to be digital currencies which essentially will command the future of international capital flows so right now that's the biggest concern because if china launches their digital army successfully this one where does all in a widespread adoption of the digital r. and b. to be used in emerging markets and international trade so countries will no longer be dependent and beholden to the dollar so a lot of this what's driving this decision right now is fall fear of missing out and it's kind of important to note that in many hearings the discussions are now revolving around how rather than if the u.s. should put together a c.d.c.

digital accounts for them before this kids even can walk or talk or take a decision whether they want to be instantly here how are out for a family now what effect will this presence from birth have been jan now stop. well it doesn't come without challenges of course you know and the most. they'll have the biggest digital footprint of any previous generation as you said probably by the time they wanted to use of their more photos of them they know they grandparents and write parent write their parents put together for their entire lots and the amount of video and just a digital. footprint a pretty big now because from the youngest age they're online they're on social channels that chatting and sharing and and so they just leave a long legacy a long history that can be crites in that i have if you like a digital diary i have it a digital history that i can look back on and and recall stages in life it has a downside be cruz well when you're a teenager you share things and say things that you probably don't want coming back to you 10 or 20 years lyta when you're a senior leader or an in

this version of the digital cash project due on the work of the real pioneers, a subculture of digital gold currencies. before paypal e-gold and other companies doing massive volume but then to put them to quarterly in idaho and others. this particular artifact is from the liberty dollar not a bank. that is the own circulate of all notes of ownership receipts for volume of precious metal stored on pallets. and his soon as they could issue paper receipts to come up with their own ledger and transaction system to pay and be paid in the precious metal accounting system. this version of the digital but that networks ease of use is the scarcity of precious metal. and they required a tremendous amount of trust on behalf of the users mammogram of the bar of the chain of custody documents and warehouse that you likely never saw and when someone drops the dime and the secret service got wind , everyone's assets were tagged and thrown into the van for the trial. the whole network could be distributed and all the assets walked out the door with us marshals. it is the best source for the currency

so we'll chat with her in a bit but john first forecast tell us the numbers, yeah, i mean triple digits again today guys yesterday we saw plenty of those even in the city of san francisco for the first time since 2017 a record breaker for oakland, san francisco, many other areas across the day. >>and today even though not quite as high. it's still going to be extreme heat in something you want to avoid as much as possible. well that creek it looks like traffic is pretty good which will tell you about in a second, but we are seeing triple digit highs it again this afternoon for areas like walnut creek so enjoy your morning hours even though we are all that cool this morning. i mean berkeley and timber on or both hovering right around 80 degrees to start your morning. berkeley having yet to fall out of the 80's during overnight hours. cloverdale just behind me on the map. well you fell down to 7080 80 just about 30 minutes ago fairfield double in napa some of our cooler spots at least you've got 60's and that's nice to rev rushing into your window this morning to at least cool the house d