Category: TRENDS EYE VIEW – Mar 21 2023

A college diploma was once considered a ticket to life comfortably placed in the middle class, but young Americans are taking another look at the cost-benefits of spending four years or more in university and spending tens of thousands compared to a well-placed apprenticeship.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that it will force water utilities across the U.S. to put limits on the amount of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances—known as PFAS, or “forever chemicals”—that can be present in drinking water a year after scientists discovered it takes an even smaller amount of exposure to be detrimental to the public’s health.

U.S. tech companies have been working so closely with the Pentagon on Ukraine War operations, they might as well be re-christened “Tech Force.”

Powerful creative industry groups are now coming together to advocate for intellectual property and other rights of human workers and creatives threatened by generative AI systems.