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Technophobia distracts people from real economic problems
We might not have expected much resistance to the disease in earlier times, before evidence accumulated that the fears it inspired were irrational.
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Now's the time to Start Planning
To judge from the symptomatic hand-wringing the epidemic is spreading, we are on the verge of mass unemployment as work becomes increasingly automated.
Parts of the nation’s commentariat have been seized with a nasty bout of technophobia.
Scott Winship | Brookings
We don't know what will happen. We only know what might happen. But it would be foolish not to plan for that.
A rational planning process would look something like this ......
Connecting a Brain to a Chip
A new study says that nearly half of all American jobs may soon be performed by robots.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | The Huffington Post
Engineer Arto Nurmikko examines a prototype of a wireless, fully implantable brain-recording device.Fred Field for Brown University
Pioneering surgery that involves capturing signals from his brain and restoring movement through a fine network of electronics linked to arm muscles.
Robot Cowboys
A paralyzed man will receive experimental surgery connecting a brain chip to systems that activate muscles in his arm.
David Talbot | MIT Technology Review
Case Western Reserve University
Secretaries in many ways have Become Obsolete
When robots inevitably take over, cows will be the first things they take control of.
Ricardo Bilton | VentureBeat
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In 1950, clerical jobs represented three-quarters of the federal workforce.
Today, these jobs are a mere 4 percent of the workforce of 2.1 million. That amounts to 87,153 people, less than a quarter of them secretaries.
And instead of supporting one executive in the C-suite, they work for five. Or for 50, as at the General Services Administration, where one assistant works for the entire executive staff.
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Automation has been transforming the federal workforce for two generations.
Lisa Rein | The Washington Post
Bill O'Leary | The Washington Post