As with other emerging technologies like self-driving cars, we ought think ahead twenty years and consider the implications.
If automation destroys jobs, then countries with the most robots should lose the most jobs.
With budgets under pressure, it’s politically easier to take CCTV cameras of our streets than police officers.
The switch in Conservative rhetoric from the “Big Society” to the “global race” comes at an odd time.
Imagine a swarm of drones hovering over a protest in Trafalgar Square – swooping down to take photographs, barking out orders, firing missiles
What ultimately keeps governments in power isn’t constitutions or electoral mandates, but the support of sufficient numbers of men with guns
Just as the early steam engines made the transition from very basic tasks like pumping water out of mines… computers are about to breakthrough into new applications
Writing for the Wilson Quarterly, Daniel Akst gives voice to a growing concern: “…has the day finally come when technology will leave millions of us permanently displaced? “Judging by the popular press, the answer is yes, and there is plenty of alarming data leading some people to support that view. Between January 1990 and January 2010, […]
Whatever happened to the future? Back in the 1950s they said we’d be taking our holidays on the moon by now. Instead, we’ve got Fruit Ninja. Still, at least one feature of the promised space age is coming to pass: robots! Not so much the humanoid, we’re-taking-over-the-planet variety, but more the industrial, where-would-you-like-that-rivet kind. Of […]