To automate, or not to automate? The uncanny valley
A Glimpse of the Future My mid-week post for the past two weeks has addressed a disruptive technology of major importance in the current global job situation: automation for greater productivity. Robots and automated processes have already moved well beyond doing only what robotics expert Ryan Calo called “the three D’s: dangerous, dirty, and dull.” Last Wednesday I examined some of the ways robots and automation are replacing some types of traditionally minimum-wage or low-wage jobs, sometimes in appropriate ways,…