Fast-food restaurants are a major target for automation developers because of the high labor costs connected with preparing food and dealing directly with customers. Kiosks for ordering food have begun appearing as a result of their simple design. In February for example, Wendy’s announced it would install kiosks in 1,000 restaurants (around 16 percent) by […]
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July 5th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: aliens, automation, food prep, foreign workers, job displacement, restaurant, robot, technological unemployment |
 Email This Post |  Print This Post South Korean’s Incheon Airport is testing out some new smart machines to ease the travel experience. Koreans are modernizing the airport a bit in advance of the Winter Olympics which start on Feb 9, 2018. The airport hopes to get the kinks worked out now, so the increased number of travelers next year will have a […] July 4th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: airport, automation, job displacement, robot, South Korea, Winter Olympics |
Email This Post | Print This Post It’s a rare thing for the automation threat to employment come up on TV, so any discussion has to be scored as a plus. In addition, the video segment was shown on the evening Fox News show Special Report a few days ago. But universal income is a hard sell, with so many ways it could […] June 30th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, job displacement, robot, smart machines, technological unemployment, universal basic income |
Email This Post | Print This Post After a wacky sped-up history of artificial intelligence to the present time, the Axios report gets to the question many people are asking — will robots wipe out human employment, and if so, how soon? This two-and-a-half minute video packs in a lot — importantly how large-scale automation affects people’s live and society as a whole. […] June 26th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: absence of work, automation, immigration, job displacement, jobs, robot, technological unemployment, working class |
Email This Post | Print This Post Behold: the future of manufacturing is within view! The good news is that it will occur mostly in the United States (and other areas of tech expertise); the bad news is very few human workers will be needed. Below, a robotic arm tends a cluster of nine 3-D printers in the automated factory. Yoo hoo, government and captains […] June 24th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: 3-D printing, automation, immigration, job displacement, robot factory, robots |
Email This Post | Print This Post Industrial robot manufacturers have a marketing problem: they want potential customers to be able to purchase the labor-saving machines without frightening the hired help. If employees think they are about to be replaced by a smart machine, unpleasant workplace tensions might result. So manufacturers have to adjust their language to a non-threatening vocabulary. One choice has […] June 13th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: amnesty, automation, Congress, illegal, immigration, increased immigration, job displacement, robot |
Email This Post | Print This Post The death by a thousand cuts continues to shrink the employment universe even in the rather obscure maritime sector, where few people seek jobs at sea any more. A recent report noted that Japanese firms are planning an automation remodel for ocean-going cargo ships, just like the self-driving cars nobody asked for. Japanese shipbuilders intend […] June 11th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automated ports, automation, container ships, immigration, job displacement, robot, technological unemployment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Gavin Newsom is the sort of serial politician that many citizens wish would give it a rest, because he was mayor of San Francisco for eight years and since 2010 has occupied the post of California lieutenant governor. Playing second banana to Governor Jerry Brown has been a rather low-visibility gig, so he may be looking […] June 5th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: aliens, automation, California, cost, crime, culture, deport, diversity, immigration, job displacement, robot, San Francisco sanctuary, sanctuary city |
Email This Post | Print This Post It’s nearly summer and that means the time has come for media boilerplate articles about a shortage of immigrant workers down on the farm — so couldn’t Washington kindly arrange for a few hundred thousand to be sent to California?? Right on schedule, a Google News search (which covers the last 30 days of listings) […] June 3rd, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, California, farm automation, farm labor, farm robot, immigrant farm workers, robot, smart machines |
Email This Post | Print This Post The high-tech 3D printers do amazing things these days, like building a house in a day. Now the smart machine revolution is moving into clothing production. A recent report explained how a new machine can pop out a custom knitted blazer in 90 minutes. A customer can punch a few buttons to chose fabric, design and […] May 30th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: 3-D printing, 3D printing, automation, immigration, knitter-printer, robot |
Email This Post | Print This Post Wired’s video below, sketching out the automated future vis-a-vis jobs, uses the idea that smart machines are helpful collaborative robots, or “co-bots” that allow humans to work more efficiently. But that relationship will end when the machines become able to replicate human abilities and perform them far more cheaply. One of the bumps along the road for roboticists […] May 26th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon Robotic Challenge, Amazon robots, automation, immigration, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, technological unemployment |
Email This Post | Print This Post Sunday’s San Jose Mercury had a front-page article (graphic shown) about the possibility of instituting a universal basic income to remedy the huge job loss predicted from automation. As usual, nobody promoting the idea has any suggestion of how the government would finance the trillions of dollars annually required. Perhaps a start would be to […] May 22nd, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, California, immigrant workers, job displacement, robot, smart machines, technological unemployment, universal basic income |
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