Robots are awesome, but beware: they’re after your jobs! Trace looks at the work robots are doing today, that once required a human touch.
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The World Is Automating Itself Out of Jobs
“A pair of MIT authors scheduled to publish a book extolling the virtues of technological progress have gone back to the drawing board.”
Man vs. Machine: Are Any Jobs Safe from Innovation?
“Past warnings about how technological innovation threatens jobs have proved exaggerated. Yet the digital revolution now has many scholars warning that this time things are different, and that the breakneck speed of automation could wreak havoc on the global labor market.”
Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs
“It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.”
Robotics Skills Demanded: Hiring to Build, Program, and Operate Robots Grows 29%
“Recruiters posted more than 6,000 online job ads for robotics skills in May of 2012, growing 29% versus 2011, according to WANTED Analytics™.”
Rise of the Robots: What Will the Future of Work Look Like?
“Sooner or later, we will run out of jobs — so, what are people to do if machines can do all (or most of) their work?”
Robots at Work: Toward a Smarter Factory
“Many fear that a robotic takeover of manufacturing jobs will keep humans out of work.”
Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation
“The robot equipment industry has one word for the alarmist articles and television news programs that predict a robot is about to steal your job: Fiddlesticks!”
Robots Won’t Take Your Job, But Automation Might
“Robots are on their way into your workplace, but you may not be there to complain about it.”
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