Political influence on technology
For some people, this story about robot workers taking human jobs may be good news.
Foxconn, the Taiwan-based factory firm that makes nearly half the world’s electronics, aims to replace 1 million of its workers with robots within in the next three…
For those too young to remember, the now famous quote from the fictional 1987 Oliver Stone film Wall Street, “Greed is Good” became the religion of those seeking quick fortune. After all, its main antagonist Gordon Gecko asserts that greed spurs competition, investment, innovation and so forth.
Read more →As readers on a tech site, I assume you have very strong and rational opinions on the space program. Indulge my quasi-rant on the subject, but can any of you explain what is it with the U.S.? More than four decades of technological dominance in space, and we essentially walk away, bored with it all.
Read more →The music, television and film industries are taking another stab at cracking down on Internet piracy, a practice reported by the Recoding Industry Association of America (RIAA) to the tune of $16 billion per year in lost earnings.
Read more →After a few days of interacting with family, friends, and acquaintances on Google+ I must say I’ve become quite fond of the platform.
Read more →Have you ever gone to Target and seen the parade of carts trailing behind a kid, much like a modern pied piper herding strange red creatures to their endless toil? Imagine that scenario playing out with lines of commercial trucks crisscrossing the country, a semi-robotic delivery system revolutionizing the transport of goods. It’s not that [...]
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