Tag: Automation

Total Results: 39


Amazon 500,000 sq ft 'fulfilment centre' warehouse in Peterborough preparing for 2013's 'Cyber Monday', (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
30 Jan 2018 - 5:30am

What does the ‘charging elephant’ – also known as Amazon – want? Only everything (and beware of getting in its way)

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, 17 January

17.01

Trees or farmland? ‘Agroforestry’ could mean nations like Britain would not have to choose

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, 2 January

02.01

The increasing power of computer programs to determine how we live (and die) When algorithms go wrong, who is liable?

Graeme Archer

Tuesday, 19 December

19.12

How to save your career from the march of the robots

Peter Franklin

Thursday, 14 December

14.12

Does capitalism have an answer to ‘fully automated luxury communism’?

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, 13 December

13.12

What you need to learn about machine learning

Peter Franklin

Monday, 11 December

11.12

Don’t underestimate resistance to the march of the robots

Michael Burleigh

Friday, 24 November

24.11

The argument that robots won’t take our jobs isn’t all that reassuring

Peter Franklin

Friday, 17 November

17.11

The full effects of automation will be way more disruptive than globalisation

Peter Franklin

Wednesday, 8 November

08.11

Robots are coming for our low-skilled jobs. They’re coming even quicker for our skilled jobs.

Peter Franklin

Friday, 3 November

03.11

NAFTA isn’t the answer to saving jobs. It’s a distraction from the real problem


Wednesday, 18 October

18.10

In the future we won’t have to work and the state will give us money… it’ll be awful

Peter Franklin