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Fedex Delivery Robots Seen on New York City Streets

Fedex wants us to believe that basic robot delivery on urban streets is about to become a normal thing, judging from the company’s smart box on wheels entrance in New York City.

The mechanical job-killers have not gone unnoticed. During Mayor De Blasio’s brief period of active campaigning to be President, he took a stand against […]

Only One 2020 Presidential Candidate Has Warned America about Automation

Martin Ford is a technology expert and writer whose 2015 book Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future woke up a lot of people about the fundamental changes automation will bring to the workplace and employment economy.

The book got my attention in particular about how insane it is to continue immigrating […]

PBS Frontline Surveys a Future with Artificial Intelligence

Earlier this week, PBS broadcast a two-hour Frontline episode, In the Age of AI. It was one of the more comprehensive media presentations on the automated future we face, and the program was broken into five sections. One of those was titled “The Surveillance State” and it described the steps being taken by Red China […]

Democratic Debate Includes Automation Discussion

I couldn’t face watching three hours of Democrats jabbering at each other on Tuesday’s debate, but it was interesting that automation came up as a question from news person Erin Burnet (Transcript):

BURNETT: I want to turn now to jobs. According to a recent study, about a quarter of American jobs could be lost to automation […]

CBS Sunday Morning Visits Andrew Yang

It’s encouraging to see a smart young candidate for president talking about automation as a threat to the US economy and American jobs. The 2016 election was lacking any such discussion: the tech community was aware, but Washington lagged behind, as usual.

The formula is simple: when a machine become less expensive than a worker, then […]

World of Work Faces “Global Crisis” from Automation

Martin Ford, the technology expert whose 2016 book Rise of the Robots woke up a lot of people to the automation risk, is continuing to speak to audiences warning them about the threat of a jobless future.

He recently spoke in Armenia to discuss the topic as described below — but perhaps he should be rattling some […]

Robots Are Lowering Wages, According to Study

The Federal Bank of San Francisco recently sent around a letter asking, Are Workers Losing to Robots?

It turns out that not only are humans being replaced by smart machines, but workers are also getting reduced paychecks even in the booming jobs economy because of automation in the workplace.

The Fed report starts out:

The portion of national income […]

Humanoid Robot Does Gymnastics

Boston Dynamics is a company that likes its robots to walk around, either on two legs or four.

Its four-leggers trot around sort of like headless critters that can carry things, and the two-leggers are now doing amazing athletic movements. The most recent flips and hops are quite impressive— check out the video of Atlas:

We may […]

Democrat Senator Introduces Automation Protection Bill

Senator Sherrod Brown recently submitted legislation that requires employers to notify workers of new technology being implemented and provide retraining. The costs will be on the business owners which is proper since they will be saving big money by replacing humans with machines: taxpayers should not be hit with the huge costs of transitioning to […]

Candidate Bill de Blasio Explains his Plan to Diminish Automation’s Negative Effects to Tucker Carlson

On Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show to discuss his presidential campaign along with the issue of automation, specifically how it threatens the jobs of millions of Americans in the near future.

An article written by de Blasio appeared in Wired the same day, titled Why American Workers Need to Be Protected […]

Expert Expresses Concerns with Safety of Self-Driving Vehicles

The Gold Rush toward domination of the future self-driving vehicle market continues with enthusiasm. The reticence that occurred after a deadly Arizona accident in 2018 appears to have faded, at least according to a recent CBS story. In fact, the article begins by saying, “The race to create the self-driving car continues at a feverish pace…”

The […]

How to Get Along with Robots in the Future Jobs Environment

Automation is creating a big change that is going to reorder the employment universe fundamentally. People engaged in repetitive type jobs that can be easily automated should consider a Plan B for making money, because when smart machines can perform a job more cheaply than a human, then the worker will be replaced. This is […]

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