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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.
Immigration Reform: What problem are they solving?
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David Frum | The Daily Beast
With technology destroying jobs for humans, adding tens of millions of new immigrants to America will only deepen inequality and poverty.
When they call for immigration reform, what kind of society are they building?
Free people from the shackles of low-paying jobs,
TaskRabbit is "the one company that is changing the way people are thinking about labor."
“This is a movement as important as when the web browser came out.”
Some of the partners were increasingly convinced that TaskRabbit is " going to create the dominant labor marketplace."
TaskRabbit announced its total capital infusion had increased to $38 million
DANIELLE SACKS | Fast Company
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“We’re moving from a world where we’re organized around ownership to one organized around access to assets,”
"We can make inequality much more bearable"
“In 20 years we won’t be able to imagine a world where we didn’t have access to things through collaborative consumption.”
Tomio Geron | Forbes
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James Pethokoukis | American Enterprise Institute
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.
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
earlywarningSTUART STANIFORD | Early Warnings
A rational planning process would look something like this ......
We don't know what will happen. We only know what might happen. But it would be foolish not to plan for that.
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
When robots inevitably take over, cows will be the first things they take control of.
Ricardo Bilton | VentureBeat
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"The Cost of Living is Free"
Peter Diamandis responds to Robert Reich
Federico Pistono | Wall Street Journal | YouTube
Robots Destroy Service Jobs
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Brian Merchant | Motherboard
No human hand touched this hamburger. It was made entirely by robots.
Industrial Revolution Created Jobs
This commitment unlocked the resources of society and took Britain into a new world of activity and energy. And the accent of political liberalism and enlightened thinking meant change was more likely to happen in Britain than elsewhere.
8 Jobs That Robots Stole
In the 18th century there was a commitment to new ideas, new devises, new machines, new processes.
Jeremy Black|BBC TWO
Documentary Channel 13 | YouTube | BBC-TWO
1. The people who mail stuff
2. The people who reheat pre-cooked food
3. The people who sell clothes
5 more ways....
Maker Movement Disrupts Manufacturing
It's worth looking at the different ways automation began rendering new classes of jobs obsolete this year.
LYDIA DEPILLIS|The Washington Post
Momentum Machines
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
Willow Garage
Are we prepared for a world where 50 to 75 percent of workers are unemployed? It seems like a ridiculous question, but it's something economists and technologists say we seriously need to think about. It's just math...
MAX NISEN | Business Insider
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Create Jobs or Destroy Jobs?
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 ...
Crunch the Numbers
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
KUKA
EVERYONE AGREES THAT SOME JOBS FOR HUMANS WILL BE LOST TO ROBOTS, AND SOME JOBS FOR HUMANS WILL BE MADE BECAUSE OF OUR 'BOT OVERLORDS. BUT THERE'S A GROWING DEBATE ABOUT THE MATH.
CAMILLE SWEENEY AND JOSH GOSFIELD | Fast Company
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LET'S CRUNCH THE NUMBERS WITH CYBORG HANDS!
Robots Makes It Too Easy
Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing
Moshe Vardi discusses the possibility that robots will obviate human labor faster than new jobs are created, leaving us with no jobs.
If market economies can't figure out how to equitably distribute the fruits of automation, it might end up with an even bigger, even more hopeless underclass.
"... are we creating many things that are just too easy to do?"
Robots Destroy Jobs
The endgame here is the so-called singularity—the point at which technological development, spurred by Moore’s Law and another generation or two of software and robotics development, is so sophisticated that humans have become irrelevant.
Railways Enable a Connected World
Automation has displaced a lot of workers in the last 50 years;
Steven Cherry | IEEE Spectrum’s “Techwise Conversations
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Railways became the pivotal technology for a connected world.
Railways quickly developed into the driving force behind the industrial revolution
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Democracy in America | The Economist
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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