Tag: Technical

Save the Robots

Save the Robots

New York’s mayor has a plan to address the displacement of workers through automation: Bill de Blasio wants the federal government to enact a “robot tax.” De Blasio’s proposed law stipulates that when a company introduces labor-saving automation, such as a forklift on a loading dock, it would have to pay the federal government five years’ worth of payroll taxes for each worker that the innovation displaces. The employer would have to find new jobs for the workers at their same pay or give them severance. Further, the law would invent a new federal agency to determine which jobs […]

The Economic Consequences of Automation

The Economic Consequences of Automation

Yu Haiyang/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images Economic theory does not provide a clear answer regarding the overall impact of technological progress on jobs. And even if automation has traditionally been beneficial in the long run, policymakers should never ignore its disruptive short-term effects on workers.

LONDON – While Brexit captures the headlines in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the silent march of automation continues. Most economists view this trend favorably: technology, they say, may destroy jobs in the short run, but it creates new and better jobs in the longer term.

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Mining employment returns to boom-time footing

Not quite deja vu all over again

That is a level not seen since the end of the original investment boom triggered by China’s compounding embrace of seaborne raw materials markets from 2005.

When that once-in-a-century expansion in mining sector capacity began local miners directly employed an estimated 113,000 people. By the time the boom exhausted itself in 2012, 274,000 Australians were employed by miners. As AMMA noted, through that hectic seven-year stretch, workforce demand in the mining business grew by 20 per cent annually.The resulting cost inflation – particularly in the heavy equipment, engineering and contract construction sectors – […]

Research Papers On Plc Automation

In paper industry when raw material, water and chemicals mixed together then the modern paper manufacturing requires and uses high technology tools like PLC, VFD’S and HMI to get a precise quality of paper. ieee papers on plc automation pdf. This paper discusses the rationale for these fears, highlighting the specific nature of AI and comparing previous waves. A Pew Research Center survey of 4,135 U. We consistently check for plagiarism before the papers are sent to you. 1573-1582, 4 April, 2011 A wireless application of drip irrigation automation The main aim of the research is to. Modeling of. […]

The digital economy is capitalism’s sparkling creation or its undertaker: Former PM Keating

The digital economy is capitalism's sparkling creation or its undertaker: Former PM Keating

Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet Australian former Prime Minister Paul Keating has likened the world the kids of today are stepping into to a shallow carp pond, saying it’s going to require imagination to determine how they’re going to make themselves useful.

Opening his SAP Ariba keynote in Sydney on Tuesday, Keating said the biggest challenge for Australia over the next few years would be human capital.

While he said the emergence of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation might take jobs as collateral, "it may well do other things" for the economy, and he has faith in the Australian […]

Artificial Intelligence: It’s Complicated And Unsettling, But Inevitable

Artificial Intelligence: It’s Complicated And Unsettling, But Inevitable

If artificial intelligence came to life today and set up a facebook profile, it would have a relationship with all of us, and our relationship status would be "It’s Complicated". Although we don’t see the motivation or reasoning behind the algorithms we spend so much time with, they are doing great things for us, and so we love them. Unfortunately, we don’t necessarily understand them or how they will change us. By we, I don’t just mean the general public. I mean software developers, their managers, and even machine learning engineers. AI does some things well and some things […]

Autonomy and Automation: Work in the 21st Century (Book Series)

The labour market has been hollowed out and the future of work lies in the shadow of political crises. Many have argued that this growing social polarisation is driven by technological change. However, research has not kept up with the speed at which these changes are occurring. Social protections for workers are being eroded across the globe and technology is arguably catalysing this trend. Historically, the loss of employment in one industry has been more than offset by the expansion of employment in other industries. Yet, this employment tends to emerge under different social conditions. Research has often neglected […]

Lifelong learning is the future of work

Lifelong learning is the future of work

As working environments around the world become overwhelmed by technology, a lifelong learning mindset is imperative to close skills gaps that emerge as work evolves. In the year 2030, you may be working in a job that doesn’t even exist yet. We’re not talking about flying cars or developing the world’s first time machine. The requirements, levels and styles of all kinds of work are evolving very fast, which means you need to understand how you can prepare for future roles that may emerge.

There’s no guaranteed way to tell exactly what skills will be needed in the future, and […]

Will humanoid robots really steal our jobs?

Will humanoid robots really steal our jobs?

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is sounding the alarm: The robots are coming for your job.

"Technology is now automating away millions of American jobs. It’s why Donald Trump is our president today," Yang said at the first Democratic primary debate in June. "We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. And we’re about to do the same thing to millions of retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck driving jobs." Scary words. But to others, robots represent something else — freedom from drudgery. In Japan, robots aren’t scary. In fact, interacting with […]

Gen Z Know Automation Will Take Their Jobs

Gen Z Know Automation Will Take Their Jobs

Photo by Boxed Water Is Better on Unsplash Gen Z have their eyes on the prize, a world working with AI.

Gen Z, the generation that comes after Millennials, are graduating college and entering the workforce.

Growing up as digital natives, they know machine intelligence will scale in their generation as workers in the labor force. Those headlines about “robots” coming for our jobs? Well, Gen Z have an inkling. They are actually going to live it.The eldest of Gen Z are only about 24 now, in 2019 and the majority of them are still students. Gen Z is right […]