#automation


# longform    

how the gig economy ate the post-industrial world and how to escape its clutches

We should take the gig economy's rapid growth and global impact as a warning that we need to make some major changes, and we need to make them very quickly.
how the gig economy ate the post-industrial world and how to escape its clutches

# politics    

if you care about science, technology, and the future, vote tomorrow

The 2018 midterms may be the most important vote today's generations will cast for science, technology, and the basic social contract in America. The future is at stake, literally.
if you care about science, technology, and the future, vote tomorrow

# tech    

the trump administration is in denial about jobs and artificial intelligence

Trump administration officials tells workers already or currently being replaced by robots it won't happen for another 50 to 100 years.
the trump administration is in denial about jobs and artificial intelligence

no, new yorker, tech has empathy, it's our awful politicians who don't

Om Malik blames the dire state of the West on the people who spent years ringing the alarm bells instead of those who roundly ignored them.
no, new yorker, tech has empathy, it's our awful politicians who don't

if you think globalization has been rough to you so far, you ain't seen nothing yet…

Widespread automation is about to hit the developing world, hard.
if you think globalization has been rough to you so far, you ain't seen nothing yet…

# tech    

welcome human, may we compute your order?

Satirical articles about restaurants operated entirely by robots are starting to hit way too close to home...
welcome human, may we compute your order?

# tech    

all your jobs are belong to us?

Not only are robots stealing your job, more often than not, you're helping them with nowhere to go after receiving your pink slip...
all your jobs are belong to us?

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