Summary: News of the coming great extinction has the chattering classes agog with fear. But they’re (as usual) looking the wrong way. The rapid evolution of algorithms, software, and robots will make many kinds of jobs as extinct as the Great Auk. This will reshape the world into a wonderland — or unleash disastrous social …
Summary: The first signs of the robot revolution have appeared, automation moving from manufacturing into the service industries. Economists see the evidence but cannot understand. This post provides some explanations to this complex issue. Links to other chapters of this series appear at the end. This series describes a trend that will reshape our world, one which …
Economists grapple with the first stage of the robot revolution Read More »
Summary:  Next in a series looking at one of the great social challenges of the 21st century. Journalists obsess over shockwaves — high probability, low impact scenarios. So many shockwaves of advocates willing to make outlandishly exaggerated statements with God-like certainty — often by people with a financial interest in study or mitigation of that danger. …
Coming of the robots, reshaping our society in ways difficult to foresee Read More »
Summary: The future holds many new and strange challenges. And some that we’ve grappled with successfully for generations, but most be confronted anew again. Such as automation. Links to other posts in this series appear at the end. Science fiction now, but fact for our children or grand-children.  Excerpt from James Blish’s A Life for …
The coming big increase in structural unemployment Read More »
