Post By Brenda Walker on 06/30/2015

Automation: Self-driving 18-Wheeler Trucks Forecast for Highways in Ten Years

utIt’s interesting to see that many tech prognosticators see self-driving vehicles to be a reality in a decade (or less). A little Google search experiment got 1.4 million hits for self-driving cars OR...
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/27/2015

Robots Move into Construction and Take Human Jobs

We see lots of photos of robots on factory floors, where the machines weld and assemble 24/7 with no coffee breaks. But construction workers shouldn’t think that their jobs are safe because they are o...
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/21/2015

“Rise of the Robots” Author: Job-Replacing Technology Is Unstoppable

C-SPAN’s BookTV showed an author talk this weekend with Martin Ford who wrote the important Rise of the Robots. You can watch the hour-long discussion in Seattle on the C-SPAN site or listen to the aud...
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/20/2015

Maher Mob Tries to Shout Down Ann Coulter about Immigration Facts

Fearless Ann Coulter entered Bill Maher’s liberal lion’s den on Friday to discuss her new book Adios America. It was a fair fight — three illogical liberals versus one immigration fact reciter.The big ...
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/16/2015

Mexican Brewery Is Fully Automated

It’s not just the first world where smart machines are taking over jobs that humans recently performed: Mexico’s Constellation brewery is “fully automated” and employs only six human workers per shift....
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/12/2015

China’s Robot Revolution Hitting a Few Bumps along the Road

About a month ago, I wrote about an “all-robot” factory in Red China which was actually only 90 percent automated. Imagine the workers’ relief! Still, the highly automated factory sent a strong message...
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/05/2015

Technology Ethicist Warns of Rising Unemployment from Automation

Smart machines, from robots to computers, are creating a tsunami of change in the workplace, yet many refuse to see the revolution and cling desperately to the old idea that jobs being swept away by te...
Post By Brenda Walker on 06/04/2015

Uber Moves into Self-Driving Car Business

In 2012, Google co-founder Sergey Brin opined that his self-driving car project would be available to ordinary people in five years. That seemed a little optimistic then, but in April the Delphi compan...
Post By James Kirkpatrick on 06/04/2015

As Automation Increases, A Guaranteed Income Seems Inevitable. Why Import More Of the "Unemployable?"

During last month's wave of strikes by fast-food workers advocating for a $15 an hour wage, conservatives and libertarians joked that all the protesters were doing was speeding the move towards automat...