Tag: Technology

The quantum shift

The quantum shift

I It’s ironic, isn’t it? People can’t live without food and beverages, and yet food and beverages can’t be produced without people. It’s a codependent relationship of existential proportions.

As far as industries go, our $131 billion food- and grocery-processing sector provides the essentials and makes up a massive part of the FMCG supply chains we rely on to feed, clothe and entertain us.

The FMCG industries, of which the F&B sector is the foundation, have experienced a quantum shift. They have rapidly evolved to meet consumer demands, and are now the leading manufacturing industry in Australia and New Zealand.Likewise, enterprise […]

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation – Book Review

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation – Book Review

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation . Carl Benedikt Frey. Princeton University Press. 2019.

It seems that barely a month can pass without new forecasts of technology-induced job losses hitting the front pages. The Office for National Statistics are at it , Deloitte , PricewaterhouseCoopers , the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); the World Bank even dedicated their most recent World Development Report to the future of work. Fittingly, it was Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne who turbo-charged the automation debate back in 2013 when their paper estimated that […]

WILFORD: Bill De Blasio Has A Plan — To Tax Robotic Workers

WILFORD: Bill De Blasio Has A Plan — To Tax Robotic Workers

New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio speaks during the first night of the Democratic presidential debate on June 26, 2019 (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Attempting to save his flailing presidential candidacy, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to tax businesses for automating jobs, calling it a “robot tax.” Ironically, the plan would hurt the workers that de Blasio aims to help.

De Blasio’s plan would involve establishing a tax on businesses that replace human jobs with automation in the form of five years’ worth of payroll taxes for the jobs eliminated. The revenue raised from this […]

Robot Tax: Tax on Replacing Human Jobs with Automation – The National Law Review

Robot Tax: Tax on Replacing Human Jobs with Automation - The National Law Review

Robot Tax: Tax on Replacing Human Jobs with Automation The National Law Review

President Obama said: the next wave of economic dislocation would come from automation making good middle-class jobs obsolete. Bill de Blasio, mayor of …

Automation can perform both routine physical activities as well as cognitive capabilities. This capability development has made policymakers and the public nervous about the impact on workers and their wages. In Ted Claypoole’s post Stacking The Deck For Workers Over Machines, he acknowledges that there is a partisan divide on the direction of finger pointing pertaining to the reduction of certain jobs in our […]

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. […]

Here come the robots: We can prepare for the future without fearing the future

Andrew Yang had his best policy moment of the Democratic debates last night when he said, “This country has been a magnet for human capital for generations. If we lose that, we lose something integral to our continued success.” Yang should talk more about immigration. And more about thorium-fueled nuclear reactors. Maybe also flesh out his VAT idea .

But Yang’s main idea, a universal basic income (UBI), is less appealing. It’s an elegant idea that would quickly look less so when filtered through the reality of government sausage-making and flawed human behavior . Then there’s Yang’s alarmist argument that […]

Automation will create jobs, if we get it right

Automation will create jobs, if we get it right

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These days, automation is all the rage. Companies are using AI and robotics to automate every possible task to create greater efficiencies and profits, leading to heated debates about the roles humans will play in business in the future.

On the one hand, there is the logical argument that as AI takes over mundane and repetitive tasks, there will be no need for humans to do these, leading to massive job losses around the world. Another argument states that as these jobs become automated, new jobs and roles – which currently don’t exist – will […]

“When Rates Really Suck And Drivers Take It On The Chin”

A conversation about the future of autonomous trucking with pro-labor author and sociologist Steve Viscelli.

Steve Viscelli doesn’t think of himself as a naysayer. "I’m more a yes-sayer with a pessimistic outlook," said Viscelli, an economic and political sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Big Rig: Trucking & the Decline of the American Dream.

That book featured some serious, on-the-ground research, with Viscelli driving thousands of miles in a Class 8 truck. He’s currently at work on another book about trucking, this time about autonomy and automation.And yeah, he’s pretty pessimistic about the self-driving future, at […]

Melding STEM With the Jewish Humanities

Melding STEM With the Jewish Humanities

For as long as parents and teachers have been educating children there has existed a tension between two complementary but also at times competing values. On the one hand, education is an investment in a profession. By that standard, a successful educational outcome is judged by whether a pupil is adequately prepared to enter the working world and find gainful employment. Equally critical to a successful educational outcome is the socialization of our children into honest, kind, empathetic and socially productive citizens. Ideally, our children will emerge from 15 years of Jewish education as both socially and economically productive […]

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment

Do industries shed or create jobs when they adopt new labour-saving technologies? This column shows that manufacturing employment grew along with productivity for a century or more, and only later decreased. It argues that the changing nature of demand was behind this pattern, which led to market saturation. This implies that the main impact of automation in the near future may be a major reallocation of jobs, not necessarily massive job losses.

There is widespread concern today that many jobs will be lost to new computer technologies, as more human tasks can be performed by machines. A host of recent […]