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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots
Using robots in training programs to overcome challenges pushes participants out of their comfort zone. It deepens their awareness of complexity and builds ownership and responsibility. The array of skills and work techniques that this kind of training offers is more in need today than ever, as technology is rapidly changing the skills demanded in the workplace. Instead of programming people to act like robots, why not teach them to become programmers, creative thinkers, architects, and engineers? Read the whole blog on HBR.org
The tensions in the Bay Area are a manifestation of a global trend in which technology is displacing human labor without proportionately raising standards of living for most of the population.
What human skills will be more valuable?
The age of brilliant machines seems to reward a few traits.
Computers are increasingly going to be able to perform important parts of even mostly cognitive jobs
David Brooks | New York Times
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Sharing goes from a niche market to mainstream
Of all the big ideas to emerge out of Silicon Valley in the past decade, none seem to resonate with personal computing’s counterculture roots as much as the so-called sharing economy.
We all have stuff that often goes unused: our cars, our homes, our talent. So instead of buying more, let’s share.
MARCUS WOHLSEN | Wired
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A Q&A with Tyler Cowen, author of ‘Average is Over’
Flash fact:
most of the jobs lost during the Great Recession were mid-wage occupations,
most of the jobs added in the recovery have been low-wage jobs.
many of those disappearing middle-level jobs are what economists call “routine, manual tasks” that can be easily automated.
If economist Tyler Cowen is right, that trend is merely a taste of things to come.
"Software is eating the world"
The world of start-ups today offers a preview of how large swathes of the economy will be organised tomorrow.
Cheap and ubiquitous building blocks for digital products and services have caused an explosion in start-ups. Here's why it matters.
Ludwig Siegele | The Economist
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The prevailing model will be platforms with small, innovative firms operating on top of them.
I see no way this trend can continue without eventually rendering almost all of us irrelevant.
International Federation of Robotics
I am simply unable to come up with a narrative convincing to myself in which there are many future generations of tolerably happy humans.
The robot population seems to have a doubling time of about 2 1/2 years
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Richard Mahoney, the director of the robotics program at SRI International discusses the long-term ramifications of Robotics for the economy and the job market.
Nancy Lin|Business Reinvention | Voice of America
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Mr. Mokyr's answer is that in Britain ideas interacted vigorously with business interests in "a positive feedback loop that created the greatest sea change in economic history since the advent of culture."
Why did Britain have an industrial revolution first?
The Industrial Enlightenment put knowledge in the service of production, changing the course of history.
TREVOR BUTTERWORTH | The Wall Street Journal
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Maker Movement Disrupts Manufacturing
The Most Innovative Companies Are The Ones Doing More With Fewer Resources
Resource optimization is now a key part of any company's core strategy. And it's even critical to the future of business itself.
Jim Fields | Business Insider
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Technology never has destroyed jobs on a net basis and it won’t in the future.
Many experts would have us believe that robots and other technologies are behind the job drought. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Robert D. Atkinson|MIT Technology Review
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That is what companies across the country are realizing as they shift more production to robotics. Many are expanding their commercial footprint with a new addition or in some cases, excavating for a lower floor to accommodate the recent influx of extremely heavy live-in machines.
Even a robot needs a home.
MARTHA C. WHITE | The New York Times
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A industry sponsored report - under the banner Robots Create Jobs - cited the following reasons why they opposed the CBS 60 Minutes piece and why robotics really does create jobs ...
I Feel Like Someone's Watching Me
There are at least 350,000 people directly employed by and in the industrial robotics industry. More than half of those 350,000 jobs are offshore.
Frank Tobe | The Robot Report
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It can be quite startling at times when you turn to see a robot looking over your shoulder as you work.
Robot HR Department
ARMAND VALDES | Mashable
I saw my boss' face featured prominently on the iPad's screen, whizzing around the office.
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How to make your resume as robot-friendly as possible.
Most big companies use applicant tracking system (ATS) software to sift through online resume submissions.
Alan Taylor | Mashable
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Intelligent Machines sub for Lawyers
"In the old world, the (legal profession's )business model was awesome," said Wang. "Now you can look it up just as easily as I can.”
Ted Wang, who has honed legal strategies for tech companies like Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., is turning to a novel tool in his bid to demystify the legalities of starting a company.
Lauren Hepler | Silicon Valley Business Journal
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One important factor in the decline of private-sector unions is the increasing automation of heavily-unionised manufacturing jobs. American manufacturing output has grown robustly while the portion of the workforce employed in manufacturing has plummeted. Thanks robots!
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