Yukonomist: The robots have arrived, and they are not as scary as I thought

Yukonomist: The robots have arrived, and they are not as scary as I thought

A little robot calculates the fuel levels in home oil tanks. (Keith Halliday/Yukon News) On a recent Friday afternoon, in the fading Yukon light, a shadow passed my window.

It was a stranger, and he was headed for our oil tank.

I investigated and discovered he was carrying a strange device: an automated wireless oil tank gauge. In effect, a little robot to watch my fuel gauge 24/7 and text headquarters whenever I need a fill.If we wanted to have a Twitter meltdown, we could describe the stranger as a stormtrooper of global techno-capitalism on a mission to deploy a job-killing […]

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