Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have covered most of the skills and qualities that the present youth devotedly regards as keys to success in the future. The first wave of AI replaced humans in physically repetitive tasks. That shift gave rise to our current “Thinking Economy”. And now… if you expect to have a viable career, you better get in touch with your emotions. This is the message from marketing professor Roland Rust at the University of Maryland. The economy ahead is the “Feeling Economy”. Rust believes that we are already into it — the shift in feeling as being more significant, not only in terms of employment growth but also in terms of compensation growth. There is greater compensation growth in feeling than there is in thinking. “This is really across the board — you name a job and we can show a shift from thinking to feeling.” People need to get used to the idea of AI doing more. AI will eventually take over even most of the emotional tasks of relating to people. And as AI gets more sophisticated, there’s no going back — “The genie is out of the bottle.”

SNEAK PEEK

1. Tested health data

Survey makers often rely on self-reported facts about people rather than clinically tested health data. The difference between these two is well-known but only now it’s known that it varies from age-group to age-group and country to country. Who saw it in a global survey?

1. IIASA researchers Sonja Spitzer with Daniela Weber

2. Two memory traits

Some people have picture-perfect details of an experience while others tend to recall only its content. These two memory traits or styles are associated with distinct brain connectivity patterns, and this will make a difference as people age. Who identified the styles?

2. McGill University psychologist Dr Signy Sheldon

3. Spikes of pollution

Even in places with low levels of air pollution, short-term spikes are still common despite the success of environmental policies. Who reported that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may protect the lungs from these short-term spikes?

3. Dr Andrea Baccarelli (Columbia Mailman School)

4. Feeding in the past

Feeding vessels, made from clay, first appeared in Europe around 5,000 BC. These offer a connection to mothers and infants in the past. Who provided the first evidence that prehistoric babies were fed animal milk using the equivalent of modern-day baby bottles?

4. Chemist Dr Julie Dunne (University of Bristol)

5. Isn’t it a tribal legacy?

Soccer hooliganism is not social bonding gone wrong. It is a legacy from early human groups who had to succeed against each other for food, territory, and mates. Who argued that soccer hooligans aren’t necessarily dysfunctional people outside of the soccer community?

5. Dr Martha Newson (Oxford’s Centre for Anthropology and Mind)

6. Do you keep dogs?

Dog owners, compared to non-owners, enjoy 24% reduced risk of all-cause mortality, 65% reduced risk of mortality after a heart attack and 31% reduced risk of mortality due to cardiovascular-related issues. Who came up with the figures in a well-categorised study?

6. Glenn N. Levine (American Heart Association)

7. As neurons combine

How do the brain’s billions of neurons come together to build a biological machine that can easily beat any supercomputer? This criticality is truly a set point and not a mere inevitability. Who said that “When neurons combine, they actively seek out a critical regime”?

7. Keith Hengen (Washington University in St. Louis)

8. Get it many times

There is no cure for the common cold, but have you tried a tattoo? A new study says that receiving multiple tattoos can make your immunological responses strong enough to fight off common infections, but a single tattoo can lower your resistance. Who led the study?

8. University of Alabama anthropologist Dr. Christopher Lynn

9. Parental depression

Depressive symptoms of parents can lead small children (aged 2 to 5) to hyperactivity, aggressiveness and anxiety. Strangely, the mother’s symptoms alone can affect them even if the father isn’t depressed, but it won’t happen the other way round. Who studied the oddity?

9. Johanna Pietikäinen (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare)

QUIZ No. 924

1. Who noticed that people apply the rules of their spoken language to sign language?

– Iris Beren
– Daniel Leonard Everett
– Wendy Ayres-Bennet
1. Iris Berent

2. Microbes and humans use stunningly similar structures to respire. Who reported it?

– Michael W.W. Adams
– Emil Hans Willi Hennig
– Sergei Chetverikov

2. Michael W.W. Adams

3. Heavy sport-training can make the brain tired, not just the body. Who discovered it?

– Mathias Pessiglione
– Karl Wilhelm von Nageli
– Rita Levi-Montalcini

3. Mathias Pessiglione

4. Which Nazi unit was allowed to market its brand of cigarettes, using stark violence?

– Sturmabteilung
– SS-Totenkopfverbände
– Schutzstaffel (SS)

4. Sturmabteilung

5. Which choreographer created over 80 diverse works including one about Gandhiji?

– Margaret Barr
– Chrystelle Trump Bond
– Tatiana V. Stepanova

5. Margaret Barr