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Susskind – 3 Myths about the future of work

Posted in Automation, Future of Work
Bill

Daniel Susskind – 3 Myths about the future of work ( and why they’re not true!) Links https://www.danielsusskind.com Robots & Jobs – The Evidence Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of…

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Tesla Semi

Two types of People…

Posted in Automation, Future of Work
Bill

Who’s right? Elon Musk makes it very clear which type he is! The live-stream of the launch is here. In presentations I have made in the last eighteen months, I…

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Decoupling Productivity

Posted in Automation, Future of Work
Bill

Another interesting piece from the Kurzgesagt team. They are perhaps more correct than they know [or fear] Decoupling productivity from human labour. This is the key difference when it comes…

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Florence

A New Renaissance? For whom?

Posted in Automation, Economic Policy
Bill

Welcome to the slowest day of the rest of your life…  A capital-intensive new renaissance ? Be careful what you wish for… Outstanding conversation led by Paul Colgan @Colgo with…

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In the land of the one-armed Robot…

Posted in Automation, Industry
Bill

Perth-based Fastbrick Robotics Ltd [ ASX: FBR] today announced their highly innovative Hadrian X robot bricklayer is on target for a world-first commercial release to market this year. The Perth company…

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Robot Hand Head

Robots & Jobs – The Evidence

Posted in Automation, Future of Work
Bill

Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo from The National Bureau of Economic Research at MIT in the US have just released an outstanding [in my view] working paper titled: ROBOTS AND…

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Handle

Posted in Automation, Innovation
Bill

Continuing the automation theme. The Boston Dynamics team introduces Handle. Doing things no robot has done before. Get used to that phrase… Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5…

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Driverless Truck - qz.com

Driving – Here today… ?

Posted in Automation, Employment
Bill

Truckers think automation won’t take their jobs for 40 years. Silicon Valley strongly disagrees. Who’s right? Automation and the ominously euphemistic “process removal” are challenging our understanding of what modern…

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Robot Carers via Mosaic Science

Robot Carers?

Posted in Automation, Future of Work
Bill

The theme of “crossed lines” is one I visit regularly. The demographic challenges facing policy makers and the specific challenges that will be bourne by younger generations are unequivocal in my view. The…

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