Tag: Technology

Jobs Least Likely to Be Automated

Jobs Least Likely to Be Automated

The onward march of technology has long been a double-edged sword in terms of its effect on employment. On the one hand, technological advancement has created entirely new industries and led to increased efficiency, rapid production, and streamlining of the workplace in general.

On the other hand, automation has made a lot of formerly essential jobs obsolete, and those job losses will only become more widespread as the fields of AI and robotics continue to break new ground.

It’s easy to see why so many people are looking for new lines of work that simply could not exist without human workers. […]

Tax code should not make hiring robots more affordable than people

Tax code should not make hiring robots more affordable than people

1of9Toyota’s basketball robot Cue 3 demonstrates Monday, April 1, 2019 at a gymnasium in Fuchu, Tokyo. The 207-centimeter (six-foot-10) -tall machine made five of eight three-pointer shots in a demonstration in a Tokyo suburb Monday, a ratio its engineers say is worse than usual. Toyota Motor Corp.’s robot, called Cue 3, computes as a three-dimensional image where the basket is, using sensors on its torso, and adjusts motors inside its arm and knees to give the shot the right angle and propulsion for a swish.(AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)Photo: Yuri Kageyama, STF / Associated Press Walmart and Kroger are deploying robots […]

How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class

How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class

Should workers fear the robots ? You don’t have to look far to find lots of people shouting "yes."

Magazines and newspapers blare headlines like " Welcoming our new robot overlords ," " When your new co-worker is a robot ," and " You will lose your job to a robot — and sooner than you think ." Studies suggest anywhere from 9 percent to 47 percent of American jobs could be automated in the next few decades. In 2017, Bill Gates proposed a "robot tax" to address the problem. Andrew Yang, a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, […]

Where Do Good Jobs Come From?

Where Do Good Jobs Come From?

CAMBRIDGE – Around the world this May Day, policy proposals that would have appeared radical just a few years ago are now on the agenda. In the United States, for example, high marginal tax rates, wealth taxes, and single-payer health care have become mainstream ideas. Yet unless policymakers get their priorities right, the opportunity for meaningful reform could be squandered, leading to even deeper social and political divisions.

In fact, while the reforms that are needed are radical and sweeping, they are not the ones currently in vogue. The top priority should be creating high-wage jobs, and this goal should […]

Mouser Electronics: Collaborative robots are transforming industry

Mouser Electronics: Collaborative robots are transforming industry

For several generations, industry has been well served by robots. Now, cobots are transforming industry. Mouser Electronics’ Paul Golata explains.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived. Its future is profound. Billions of devices are being connected into the internet allowing for the capture, manipulation and processing signals across a host of sources. Computers connect common everyday objects and devices that employ sensors to capture information.

Collecting analogue information from the external world, this network works to code it into digital signals and transfers it across time and space by means of the internet. Device, edge and cloud domains function […]

Robots won’t replace all that makes us human

Robots won’t replace all that makes us human

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As the human touch fast disappears from numerous more employment sectors, we must recognise the changing world of work is already upon us, writes the University of Auckland’s Robert Greenberg

Some experts in New Zealand predict that 40 per cent of current jobs will disappear in the next 10 years.Now, we can’t know this for certain – technology has yet to come up with a reliable tool for future gazing. However, we do know technology is taking us from automated travel announcements in airports around the world, to modular houses designed and built under automation, to accountancy and […]

AI vs. Human: how Will the Labor Market Change in the Near Future?

AI vs. Human: how Will the Labor Market Change in the Near Future?

The rapid development of technology, especially of artificial intelligence with its incredible potential and capabilities, smoothly leads humanity to the fourth industrial revolution. AI will play a key role in it – in modernizing the global economic landscape, including the labor market. This can be compared with the industrial revolution that took place in the 19th century when technological progress completely transformed the world economy. But this time, the changes will occur ten times faster.

The modern industrial revolution which is caused by artificial intelligence is a turning point in history that will lead to radical economic change throughout the […]

Where do good jobs come from?

Where do good jobs come from?

Around the world this May Day, policy proposals that would have appeared radical just a few years ago are now on the agenda. In the United States, for example, high marginal tax rates, wealth taxes, and single-payer health care have become mainstream ideas. Yet unless policymakers get their priorities right, the opportunity for meaningful reform could be squandered, leading to even deeper social and political divisions.

In fact, while the reforms that are needed are radical and sweeping, they are not the ones currently in vogue. The top priority should be creating high-wage jobs, and this goal should guide policymakers’ […]

South Africa’s massive jobs challenge: balancing automation and unemployment

South Africa’s massive jobs challenge: balancing automation and unemployment

Robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) could provide a welcome boost to service delivery and help reduce the ever-escalating costs of running the public service, says Lusanda Raphulu, partner at African law firm Bowmans.

The difficulty of course, would be dealing effectively and sensitively with the fears of trade unions and public servants that job losses could result, she said.

“Just recently, on 9 April 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the membership of the new 30-person Presidential Commission on the 4IR, which he himself will chair.“The role of the commission is to ‘assist government in […]

Where Do Good Jobs Come From?

Where Do Good Jobs Come From?

Aleksandar Georgiev/Getty Images Many regard the falloff in the creation of high-wage jobs as the inevitable result of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. It isn’t. Technology can be used either to displace labor or to enhance worker productivity.

CAMBRIDGE – Around the world this May Day, policy proposals that would have appeared radical just a few years ago are now on the agenda. In the United States, for example, high marginal tax rates, wealth taxes, and single-payer health care have become mainstream ideas. Yet unless policymakers get their priorities right, the opportunity for meaningful reform could be squandered, leading […]