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Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?
Smart machines probably won't kill us all—but they'll definitely take our jobs, and sooner than you think.Peter Thompson's insight:Great graphic illustrating how Moores Law & robot/AI machines...
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Precognitive robot knows you need help before you do
A new robot developed by researchers at Cornell University isn't only capable of assisting you with tasks, it can accurately predict when you might need a hand. Armed with a Kinect sensor, the...Peter...
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Am I too dumb to be a droid? - Nesta
Geoff Mulgan states his case that jobs / functions will change so that humans & robots will coexist!Peter Thompson's insight:Here is a link to the upcoming Nesta FutureFest event Emotional...
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Meet The Robot That Will Teach Your Child To Program
Educational iPad apps? Yawn. Play-i wants to teach kids coding through tangible play.Peter Thompson's insight:“Their imaginations are actually what’s helping us build this product,” he said. “We’ve...
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Will you still have a job in 2025? The alarming rate at which jobs are being...
A recent MIT Technology Review reveals an alarming trend. Since the early 2000's and increasingly since the financial crisis of 2008, the levels of employment hPeter Thompson's insight:Bit of an own...
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Pizza Delivery From The Sky? Drone Distribution Networks Held Back By Regulators
I am waiting for my first pizza bomb but the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration just won’t get out of the way. I read about it on the Internet – an enterprising Domino’s franchisee in the U.K.Peter...
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Careers that are being automated into oblivion
You might think you're familiar with the steady march of automation. But the list of jobs that are being disrupted by technological change may surprise you.Peter Thompson's insight:A tongue-in-cheek...
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Artificial Intelligence and Death by Drones: the Future of Warfare will be...
The technocratic nightmare born out of trans humanism and eugenics receives another gift from the military industrial complex at the expense of humanity.Peter Thompson's insight:It's not exactly new...
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How tech changes the skills we need to learn | Impact Lab
Technology changes the skills we need to learn. A New York Times column written a while ago by Bill Keller, stirred up some controversy when he wrote that hePeter Thompson's insight:An interesting...
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Why nearly half of all jobs are at high risk of computerisation | Information...
New research from Oxford University finds that nearly 50% of all jobs are at high risk of automation in the next 20 yearsPeter Thompson's insight:The authors analysed (algorithmically, as it happens)...
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Small Business Labs: Labormetrics, Autonomy and Employee Tracking
The Wall Street Journal's Memo to Mobile Workers: The Boss is Watching covers the growing use of labormetrics systems to monitor and track their employees.Peter Thompson's insight:Even if you work...
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Robots test their own world wide web
An online platform, dubbed RoboEarth, is being unveiled this week as a kind of world wide web for robots.Peter Thompson's insight:And so starts the beginning of the end.....4 robots to work in...
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A Computer Program Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time
This is big. A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. In doing so, it has become the first in the...
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Algorithm given seat on board
A venture capital firm has appointed a computer algorithm to its board of directors, allowing it to vote.Peter Thompson's insight:Some day, all business decisions will be made this way........can't...
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The Future of Work – A journey to 2022
Tremendous forces are radically reshaping the world of work as we know it. Disruptive innovations are creating new industries and business models and destroying old ones. New technologies, data...
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Let Digital Natives Be Your Guide in Defining the Future of Work
Don’t let complacency undermine your company’s hyperconnected present and future. Pervasive technology fundamentally changes how people communicate, discover and connect.See it on Scoop.it, via Rage...
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Welcome to the age of Digital cruelty, where two-thirds of operational jobs...
“Organizations have been trying to reduce their labor costs for decades, but something feels very different about the new Digital reality in which we operate.”See it on Scoop.it, via Rage against the...
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Experts weigh in on the coming robot takeover
If you're reading this, you're probably familiar with the debate over whether a robot will take your job. Will manufacturing ever provide a stable income again? Will robot nurses replace human...Peter...
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UN News - UN meeting targets 'killer robots'
The top United Nations official in Geneva has urged bold action by diplomats at the start of the world body's first ever meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS), better known as “killer robots,”...
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Can a Robot Be Your Boss? - Knowledge@Wharton
Can a Robot Be Your Boss? Knowledge@Wharton Widely used software is analyzing customer data for algorithms, which in turn is changing when and where workers are deployed. Connect the dots, and the...
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