Tag: Technology

Continuing Threats to American Jobs – Automation and Offshoring

Continuing Threats to American Jobs – Automation and Offshoring

Downton Abbey Syndrome.JPG While employment statistics, at the moment, look good – the unemployment level would be, at least, 3 percentage points higher (probably 4 points; i.e., 8.0%) without the continuing growth of federal debt.

American Jobs continue to succumb to automation and transfer to low-cost wage countries. What is the future of having a job; for you, your children, and grandchildren?

What is the current situation? While in the past the focus of public attention has been on low-end jobs, many engineering and computer science jobs have been transferred from the US to India and Pakistan.As MRI lie detection technology […]

Economic Possibilities for Ourselves

Economic Possibilities for Ourselves

21 November 2019, Hamburg: A robot interacts with a woman at “Speed Dating with AI – Meet the Robots at AI Days” at the Hammerbrooklyn Digital Campus. On 22 and 23 November, a selection of highly developed robots from various fields will be shown, giving an insight into the current possibilities of artificial intelligence. Photo: Axel Heimken/dpa (Photo by Axel Heimken/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The most depressing feature of the current explosion in robot-apocalypse literature is that it rarely transcends the world of work. Almost every day, news articles appear detailing some new round of layoffs. In the […]

The 4 biggest challenges to our higher education model – and what to do about them

The 4 biggest challenges to our higher education model – and what to do about them

Education models need to reflect the demand for lifelong learning to cope with the technological and social changes brought by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Skills not degrees may be the reality of the future.

Start-ups and new business models are disrupting traditional educational institutions and operating models. In a future of unprecedented societal shifts, education is crucial to managing the challenges ahead. With more automated, digitized and fluid job markets, today’s higher education systems are quickly becoming incompatible with the future we are looking towards. We are two decades into the 21st century, yet higher education is generally still […]

Next gen | Levitt Bernstein

Next gen | Levitt Bernstein

Georgia Green, left, and Jessica Rees Change is coming, driven by the influx of Millennials and Gen Z transforming the way we think and work. PlaceTech spoke to a handful of future decision-makers on their ideas for change and how they see their roles developing.

The first in the series features Jessica Rees and Georgia Green, both architectural assistants at architect Levitt Bernstein’s Manchester office. What tasks are going to be part of your job in the future?

As architectural assistants, we are both at the beginning of our careers. We have gone through our education at […]

Technology Needs To Boost Productivity To Help Workers

Technology Needs To Boost Productivity To Help Workers

In a recent article I explored whether investing in technology is inevitably going to harm the employment prospects of workers. The article revolved around the fact that employment often rests upon productivity, and that not investing in technology is a sure fire way to harm productivity, which will then harm our employment prospects.

It’s a notion that has a lot of merit, but a recent paper reminds us, not all investments in technology are liable to have the same impact. The authors argue that the benefits highlighted in my previous article do undoubtedly arrive when the technology we’re investing in […]

Short-staffed at factory? Japanese-Israeli venture offers robots for hire

Short-staffed at factory? Japanese-Israeli venture offers robots for hire

Illustrative image of robots working with carton boxes on a conveyor belt (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images) An Israeli-Japanese joint venture is offering robots for hire by manufacturing industries, creating what it says is “the world’s first employment agency for robots.”

MusashiAI is a joint venture set up by Israel’s SixAI Ltd., the firm of Israeli tech entrepreneur Ran Poliakine , the maker of the Powermat wireless charging solution , and Japan’s Musashi Seimitsu, an affiliate company of the giant Honda Motor Corporation.

The joint venture was set up earlier this year to develop artificial intelligence technologies to form the […]

Embracing Industrie 4.0 and the ongoing need to digitise

Embracing Industrie 4.0 and the ongoing need to digitise

Industrie 4.0 Fact: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industrie 4.0) is not coming to mining in Africa – it’s already here – and in 2019 it became a top priority.

As an industry that is steeped in tradition, embracing the digital era has been met with a resistance to change. However, here are just a few reasons why those who started embracing Industrie 4.0 in 2019 will benefit:

Makes underground operations profitable There can be no arguing that the high costs involved in going deeper to find good grade ore bodies has forced many underground operations to shut shop, particularly […]

Minimum ‘human quotas‘ needed to protect jobs from robots

The rise of the robots may force ministers to introduce human worker quotas, leading legal experts warn

Greater protections are needed to stop robots stealing your job, according to a renowned organisation of international lawyers.

Legal experts are concerned that the pace of developments in artificial intelligence are outstripping the ability of global governments to make laws to deal with the consequences.And they are worried that this is leading to is gap between current legislation and new laws – including ‘human job quotas‘ – that they feel are necessary to protect people from being replaced by machines.Scroll down for videoThe International […]

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Trends 2020

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Trends 2020

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) market is evolving at a tremendous pace and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.3% between 2019 and 2025. This growth can be majorly attributed to how RPA streamlines and enhances legacy processes and results in high returns on investment (ROI).

Neelesh Kripalani, Sr. VP and Head Center of Excellence (CoE) of Clover Infotech, looks at the Top 5 trends to watch out in the year ahead… RPA will emerge as a complementary technology

The key benefit of RPA is that it plays well with other existing technologies. RPA has the potential to […]

Trends 2020: Five Robotic Process Automation (RPA) predictions for the coming year

Trends 2020: Five Robotic Process Automation (RPA) predictions for the coming year

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market is evolving at a tremendous pace and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.3% between 2019 and 2025. This growth can be majorly attributed to how RPA streamlines and enhances legacy processes and results in high returns on investment (ROI). Some of the key Robotic Process Automation trends to watch out for in 2020

RPA will emerge as a complementary technology : The key benefit of RPA is that it plays well with other existing technologies. RPA has the potential to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and learn accordingly, hence it enhances […]