In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children being taught to behave like machines?
Whether you live to work or work to live, we’re all going to see some noticeable changes to work in the near and distant future.
Reports are out that a Chinese robot has written and published its first newspaper article. The news comes the same month as a Japanese insurance company announced it was replacing 34 workers with an artificial intelligence system.
In a world where these labor cycles are accelerating, the question is: What skills do we teach the next generation so they can keep pace?
As more and more positions become automated by software or robots, Musk says, world governments will eventually have to step up: “There is a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income
Every five years a panel of experts will assess the current state of AI and its future directions. Here’s how they think it will affect eight key domains of city life in the next fifteen years.
Leaders often talk about how solar energy is the way of the future, but that “future” claim seems to delay plans and defer immediate action. At what point does the future become today? Well… how about now?
You'd be hard pressed to find someone who would deny that Steve Jobs changed the world. His Wired interview which is now 20 years old, paints a startlingly accurate picture of the reality that we now live in.
Are robots coming for your job? It's not an unreasonable question. Just last week, President Barack Obama warned congress that robots are going to begin taking over jobs that pay less than $20 an hour, placing 62% of American jobs at risk.
Researchers in Japan recently analyzed 601 jobs and found that 49 percent of the common occupations they analyzed could be performed by robots or computer automation in the next 10 to 20 years.
