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The government’s reaction to the coronavirus of shutting down the normal economy has unsurprisingly inspired some business owners to contemplate shifting to non-human means of production by using machines that don’t get sick. One blog stated the objective clearly in a recent headline: Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought, SingularityHub.com, March […] March 20th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, China, coronavirus, factory, human workers, job loss, manufacturing, production, robot, service robots |  Email This Post |  Print This Post 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 […] September 18th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, human workers, legislation, robot, Senator Sherrod Brown, technology, technology-caused unemployment, workers | Email This Post | Print This Post Jeff Bezo’s incorporation of automation into online shopping has made Amazon the world leader in e-commerce by utilizing the technology of robots. His business acumen has also made him the richest man on earth, worth around $150 billion. Now the holiday sales statistics are in, and the system is working well: there were more […] January 5th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, automation, economy, human workers, immigration, Jeff Bezos, job displacement, robot, technology | Email This Post | Print This Post The Christian Science Monitor recently took a good long look at how the automated future will affect workers in one of the nation’s largest job categories — trucking. Self-driving vehicles will likely cause a great number of the two million-plus truck drivers in America to be put out of work. Below, a 2015 map of […] November 25th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, automation job loss, human workers, immigration, robots, self-driving trucks, smart machines, technical training, truck drivers, truck driving | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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