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Is technology taking jobs or creating new ones? | Noelle Neff

Is technology taking jobs or creating new ones? | Noelle Neff

Noelle Neff Noelle Neff is an accomplished photographer and aspiring journalist based in Coral Gables, Florida. Her passion began with photography but she quickly realized that while a picture is worth a thousand words, those words still need to be written. She believes that as technology brings the world together regional news has an increasingly global impact.

In the 18th-century, England was the starting point for the Industrial revolution which would spark the transition to the modern world we occupy today. As any history teacher will attest to, the people of the 18th and 19th-centuries were initially unhappy with […]

In An Era Of Changing Work, How Will Your Job Define Who You Are?

In An Era Of Changing Work, How Will Your Job Define Who You Are?

Darren Garrett The steelworks in Port Talbot, Wales, once among the largest in Europe, are the tallest buildings for miles in any direction. 50 years ago, they loomed over the town as a symbol of prosperity; today they represent the loss of that success. In the 1960s, nearly 20,000 of a population of 50,000 worked there; now, only 4,000 do , roughly one in ten residents.

"[The steel industry] was deeply entwined with the social life," says Bleddyn Penny. He grew up in a similar Welsh community, and went on to study the post-World War II social history of Port […]

Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust

Why the Automation Boom Could Be Followed by a Bust

Theo Chapel/EyeEm/Getty Images You may not be sharing your office with a robot yet, but the next wave of automation has begun. Humanoid service robots, machine learning algorithms and autonomous logistics will replace millions of service workers in the coming decade. Experts are rushing to forecast the likely impact on jobs. But most projections overlook two powerful forces that will combine with automation to reshape the global economy by 2030: rapidly aging populations and rising inequality.

The collision of these three forces sets the stage for a 10- to 15-year economic boom followed by a bust. An aging workforce , […]

Ludicrous Jericho, absurd Cannon-Brookes warn on jobs market

Ludicrous Jericho, absurd Cannon-Brookes warn on jobs market

From the Jericho Sell-out today : But all is now good? Are we back to where we were when things were booming? Not by a long shot. Our economy has massively changed since then, and that includes who works and what type of work is done. Over the past decade, the growth in employment among prime-aged workers has been very much women-based, and very much in part-time work: Consider that in August 2008, 88.4% of prime-aged men were employed – now it is just 86.7%; whereas back then 72.4% of women aged 25-54 were working, now it is 74.2%. […]

Impact of robots on employment

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In particular, I study the impact of these emerging technologies on the workforce and the provision of health benefits, pensions, and social insurance. by Gary Robbins, The San Diego Union-Tribune / December 28, 2016. Gunda Niehaus. The Truth About Robotics: Impact of Robotics on Employment impacting employment, safety, defines an industrial robot as an automatically controlled, The impact on jobs Automation and anxiety. Economists Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo studied the US labor market between 1990 and 2007, looking at employment Results. The term "Luddite fallacy" was coined to describe the thinking that innovation would have lasting […]

Automation Isn’t Killing Jobs, Study Says, But May Be Keeping Income in Check

Automation Isn’t Killing Jobs, Study Says, But May Be Keeping Income in Check

Date: 10-03-2018
Source: The Wall Street Journal

New research finds workers are getting a smaller slice of an expanding economy Robotic arms weld car frames in a Japanese auto factory in December.
Employment in transportation equipment manufacturing was nearly unchanged between 1970 and 2007, but the sector became far more productive. A new study rebuts the notion that automation is eliminating jobs broadly in the economy, but does find technological advancement doesn’t reward workers much with added income. Over the previous five decades, automation hasn’t reduced the number of jobs available in 18 advanced economies, including the U.S.–in fact, […]

Impact of robots on employment

We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they do affect the composition of aggregate employment. So far, there has been no substantial research done into robotics, especially in the health care sector. Such change typically includes the introduction of labour-saving "mechanical-muscle Some 1,896 experts responded to the following question: The economic impact of robotic advances and AI—Self-driving cars, intelligent digital agents that can act RobotWorx 370 W Fairground St, Marion, OH 43302 | 740-251-4312 | Monday – Friday 8:00am – 4:30pm EST Why the Republican Party wins when robots take your job . Statistics also […]

Automation vs. jobs and human contact

Automation vs. jobs and human contact

Igor Faletski is CEO of Mobify, a Vancouver company working on mobile technology. In the future of retail, it is likely that bricks-and-mortar stores and online commerce will merge into a seamless and convenient entity, says Vancouver tech entrepreneur Igor Faletski.

As CEO of the Vancouver-based online-commerce platform Mobify, Faletski has had a front-row view of the trend toward using technology to create a “frictionless transaction” that maximizes convenience for consumers while minimizing the amount of time they spend waiting in line.

“The days of a retail store as a place where you have inventory, you sell it and take money […]

Men fear robots more than women do

Have you noticed the big claims being made about artificial intelligence lately?

A few weeks ago Google boss, Sundar Pichai, said AI would have a more profound impact than electricity or fire. The celebrated physicist, Stephen Hawking, has warned artificial intelligence could be the "worst event in the history of our civilisation" unless society finds a way to control its advance.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk reckons AI will be the most likely cause of World War III.And of course, pundits everywhere are talking about how robots will take our jobs.Despite the hype, young Australian workers are not nearly as worked […]

Men fear robots more than women do

Machines find it harder to do tasks that require the social skills considered typically female, Photo: Bloomberg Have you noticed the big claims being made about artificial intelligence lately?

A few weeks ago Google boss, Sundar Pichai, said AI would have a more profound impact than electricity or fire. The celebrated physicist, Stephen Hawking, has warned artificial intelligence could be the "worst event in the history of our civilisation" unless society finds a way to control its advance.

LoadingTesla chief executive Elon Musk reckons AI will be the most likely cause of World War III.And of course, pundits everywhere are talking […]