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What Jobs Will Today’s Young People Have in the Automated Future?

It’s getting harder all the time to be a parent with all the negative influences in society and media today. But a new problem is how to provide guidance to a young person considering a career in a future that looks to have profoundly different work opportunities because of automation, advanced software and robots.

A […]

The 3D Printed Car Is Almost Here

As Washington plods along with its 20th century assumptions regarding labor and the economy, the technology-fueled future is here and changing all the rules. Just when we have adjusted to the idea that cars are produced by a robot factory with few humans, now the 3D printer is being rejiggered to build autos.

That concept […]

Disaster Robot Competition Demonstrates Machine Advances

A month ago, I wrote about the then-upcoming DARPA competition for robots, that had quite a demanding test for the machines (Humanoid Robot Competition Suggests Rapid Advance in Technology). DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an arm of the US Defense Department.

The diagram below shows the obstacle course of very challenging movements […]

America’s Senator Jeff Sessions Questions Attorney General Nominee Lynch about Illegal Alien Workers

Sessions’ office posted a one-minute clip of his longer cross-examination in committee of Loretta Lynch, the President’s choice to be Attorney General. He interrogated her about illegal aliens’ non-existent right to take American jobs.

SENATOR SESSIONS: Let me ask you this: In the workplace America today, when we have a high number of unemployed, […]

Los Angeles Ignores Illegal Street Vendors

The city of Los Angeles has long surrendered to the demands of its scofflaw residents in many arenas, one being the presence of unlicensed street vendors. Many are foreign, as hinted in Monday’s front-page LA Times article where the diverse sellers speak Spanish and offer Mexican food items.

As is often the case, reader […]