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Welcome to the official home and wonderful world of Pulitzer Prize Winning Political Cartoonist Michael P. Ramirez, daily editorial cartoonist for the Las Vegas Review Journal |
The robots are coming for your job, too
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019, BY CNN WIRE The robots. They’re coming for your jobs. All of you. Long the prediction of futurists and philosophers, the lived reality of technology replacing human work has been a constant feature since the cotton gin, the assembly line and, more recently, the computer. What is very much up for debate in the imaginations of economists and Hollywood producers is whether the future will look like “The Terminator,” with self-aware Schwarzenegger bots on the hunt, or “The Jetsons,” with obedient robo-maids leaving us humans very little work and plenty of time for leisure and family. The most chilling future in film may be that in Disney’s “Wall-E,” where people are all too fat to stand, too busy staring at screens to talk to each other and too distracted to realize that the machines have taken over. We’re deep into what-ifs with those representations, but the conversation about robots and work is increasingly paired with the debate over how to address growing income inequality — a key issue in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. read more NYC, get ready for the robots: The city needs a battle-plan for how automation will threaten people’s jobs
By JONATHAN BOWLES and WINSTON C. FISHER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | SEP 02, 2019 | 5:00 AM Andrew Yang’s laser-like focus on the threat of automation during the first two Democratic debates has sparked much-needed discussion about what the federal government should be doing to help workers displaced in the transition to a more automated economy. But we don’t need to wait for a new president to invest in bold new plans to prepare the workforce for automation. Cities and states can take the lead now, and there’s no better place to start than New York City. read more |
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