The passages that interested me from the reading are the sections about jobs government. Something in government passage that stuck out to me was the line “politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.” This point of view expresses that the government is reactionary and unable to combat the problems we face in the moment. It must slowly provide solutions after too much time has passed. It’s like trying to turn a ship. The government is so large and bloated that it is hard to change direction which is why it takes so long to meaningful changes to be made. This passage also talks about how the public no longer has distinct viewpoints. The author says that the mass audience is the successor to the public. We are only concerned with entertainment and are unable or unwilling to participate in politics. We are satisfied with merely watching other people on t.v. portray their ideas. But their are some people who use this ability to broadcast one’s message to the public to try to get their views across. “Freedom Marches, war, revolution, pollution, and other events” are being streamed globally to billions of people who are now exposed to this information. The public is more informed than ever. They have the tools to be quicker to react to problems faster than the government. The job passage talks about how machines will take jobs away from people. My interpretation of the reading is that people are taking more jobs that involve more complex and involved tasks that a computer will have trouble performing. Like teaching, these “human” services require a different approach than a worker on an assembly line that could be easily replace by a machine.