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Say Goodbye To Millions Of Jobs As Events Unfold
Say Goodbye To Millions Of Jobs As Events Unfold Society Needs Good Jobs Many jobs will not be coming back after the covid-19 crisis ends. We can say goodbye to millions of jobs as events unfold and markets evolve. Millions of small businesses being decimated by Fed policies that favor huge companies coupled with a surge […]
Robot Dogs Replace K9s Herding Sheep And Help Police Enforce Social Distancing
Robot Dogs Replace K9s Herding Sheep And Help Police Enforce Social Distancing For years now Activist Post has been warning about the rise of robotic technology and artificial intelligence. Now, the technology is being used for police robot dogs and for herding sheep. That means that robots are even coming for our K9 friends’ jobs. Aye caramba! […]
The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media
The Pentagon is building a ‘self-aware’ killer robot army fueled by social media Official US defence and NATO documents confirm that autonomous weapon systems will kill targets, including civilians, based on tweets, blogs and Instagram An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review, reveals that the US military plans to create […]
Automating Ourselves To Unemployment
Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock Automating Ourselves To Unemployment How shortsighted policies are creating a long-term crisis Students of Austrian business cycle theory are familiar with the term malinvestment. A malinvestment is any poor use of resources or capital, commonly made in response to bad policy (usually artificially low interest rates and/or unsustainable increases in the monetary supply). The […]
Hawking: Greedy capitalists may pocket wealth as robots replace human workers
Hawking: Greedy capitalists may pocket wealth as robots replace human workers © Issei Kato / Reuters Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking’s latest Apocalyptic prediction involves neither colonizing aliens nor malicious artificial intelligence – just plain old human greed. The scientist was commenting on so-called technological unemployment, a trend of automatization taking over the jobs that previously […]
Chinese Company Moves to Replace 90% of its Workforce with Robots
Chinese Company Moves to Replace 90% of its Workforce with Robots I’m not one of those people who thinks robots taking over menial labor from human employees is a bad thing. On the contrary, I think such a displacement could ultimately prove very positive for the species. Nevertheless, the short-term pain and suffering that this could […]
Shape Shifting Robot To Inspect Damaged Fukushima Reactor
Shape Shifting Robot To Inspect Damaged Fukushima Reactor Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered three reactor meltdowns from an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, can’t be decommissioned until its ruined reactors are inspected. But because of deadly radiation, no human can get close to the facility to survey the damage. So the Japanese […]
charles hugh smith-Our New Robot Overlords & The Third Type of Capital
charles hugh smith-Our New Robot Overlords & The Third Type of Capital. Our New Robot Overlords & The Third Type of Capital (October 18, 2014) Fortune will instead favor a third group: those who can innovate and create new products, services, and business models.A recent issue of Foreign Affairs sported a catchy cover teaser: Our New Robot […]
