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Accenture's Job-Eliminating Technology Is Available to Other Companies

The present low unemployment is likely to end in a few years when robots, automation and artificial intelligence become more widely used in the workplace. The article linked below observed that at the recent Davos meeting of elite globalists, in private, rather than promoting re-training, leaders admitted “the more automation, the better.”

So that’s the future […]

Automation May Eliminate 30 to 40 Million American Jobs

It’s a rare thing for the massive job loss associated with future automation to be discussed on television, but Wednesday’s coverage on Fox Business followed the Sixty Minutes report last Sunday — a two-fer in one week. But unlike CBS’ Scott Pelley, who seemed afraid to confront the idea that artificial intelligence would displace 40 […]

Automation Job Loss Also Occurs in Offices

Here’s an interesting take on automation-caused employment reduction in the office environment: not every job-killing change comes from a mandate sent down by corporate headquarters; sometimes a simple procedural adjustment suggested by a worker or an improvement to more efficient software can result with a co-worker’s job made obsolete.

This story is a reminder that not […]

Amazon’s Holiday Business Shows Increased Automation and Fewer Workers

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 items ordered […]

Arizonans Violently Resist Self-Driving Cars

This is an interesting report, showing that Americans are not all ready to be marched by corporate elites into the automated, jobless future.

Below, Waymo self-driving cars are being tested — and abused by citizens — in Chandler, Arizona.

In an earlier time, workers known as Luddites destroyed factory machinery to protest technology seen as taking their […]

Ireland: Taoiseach Warns of Automation Threat

It’s unusual to hear a national leader pointing out the approaching danger to workers and the economy posed by smart machines — in fact, I can’t recall another example. Perhaps top politicians of smaller countries feel more free because unusual remarks won’t upset the international order.

If only President Trump would do likewise — he could […]

Robots Get End-of-Year List

Year-end lists can be an interesting review of the blur that modern life has become, and the evolution of technology is extra rapid by its nature.

Wired’s list of robotics shows no interest in associated job loss for human workers, but if you look closely, the improving capabilities of smart machines are a warning of things […]

Farm Robot Picks Peppers

Is it really true that farmworkers are in short supply? America’s southern border has been wide open for decades, but we are still told that there aren’t enough pickers — perhaps at the wage that farmers want to pay.

Automation can solve the problem here, if one exists. Machines are coming into the marketplace that can […]

Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Focuses on Automation Threat

It’s disappointing that nobody in official Washington is paying attention to the threat of automation to the human workforce and existing economy. After all, the predictions from experts about the automated future are daunting — remember the worst unemployment rate during the Great Depression was 25 percent, but far worse is forecast for coming decades.

Ominous […]

Lion Air Crash Was Caused by Incorrect Sensor Readings and Automated Response

Here’s the kind of automation fail nobody wants to see. A jetliner crashed and killed all 189 people on board last month as the pilots struggled unsuccessfully to wrest control from the plane’s own computer system.

Below, debris recovery in the Java Sea.

It’s not the first time the mismatch between airliner computers and human pilots caused […]

Tucker Carlson Observes that Caravan Types Won’t Be Needed in America’s Automation Economy

How can anyone who knows about the automation threat see the multiple illegal alien caravans marching on our country without concern? America needs workers in the busy Trump economy, but skilled legal people are required, not grade school dropouts from Honduras who may turn to crime when wealth is not forthcoming.

Worse, this is only the […]

Amazon’s Reduced Holiday Hiring Indicates Success of Robots Replacing Workers

Companies usually deny that they incorporate automation to take the place of humans, saying instead that the machines are there to “help” workers or something similarly misleading. But obviously, businesses don’t invest millions of dollars without an eye to saving money in the long run. And Amazon is a top example of how smart machines […]

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