Post By Brenda Walker on 08/29/2015

A Law Degree May Not Guarantee Success in America’s Automated Future

It’s easy to visualize the robot aspect of the smart machine revolution, with post-human manufacturing happening more and more. We are accustomed to images of big robot arms constructing automobil...
Post By John Derbyshire on 08/29/2015

21st Century Pluses and Minuses—Robots May Mean Fewer Immigrants

A re-post, unedited, from Randall Parker's blog: While a Washington state court rules in favor of faster robot deployment at SeaTac a much more impactful way to speed up robot development is taking sha...
Post By Brenda Walker on 08/26/2015

Hitachi’s Warehouse Robot Picks Out Objects and Loads Them in Boxes

A new robot prototype from a Japanese company looks like another step toward a completely automated warehouse, where no human workers are necessary.The machine has two arms and can pull items off a she...
Post By Brenda Walker on 08/25/2015

Australia: Half of Students Are Pursuing Vanishing Jobs

Above, robots build Volkswagens in a German factory.This report from Down Under probably describes the situation in all first-world societies: colleges and trade schools are cranking out increasingly u...
Post By Brenda Walker on 08/15/2015

Automation: How Technology Shrunk the Workforce in One Newspaper

The Argus-Leader newspaper of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been running a series of articles this week titled Robot Week stories: How technology is changing the workforce. It covers some common topic...
Post By Donald A. Collins on 08/11/2015

Automation Makes Our Open Border Immigration Policy Insane

The growth of technology is a near constant in human history. Never before has it actually eliminated employment and posed a real challenge to our quality of life. But this time is different.Not long a...
Post By Brenda Walker on 08/08/2015

Automation: The 3D Printed Car Is Almost Here

Above, Local Motors’ Strati model reveals some of its print layers if you look closely at the front.As Washington plods along with its 20th century assumptions regarding labor and the economy, the tech...