Chronicling Robots Since 2011
While the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters continue on drinking, drugging and passing each other venereal diseases, the rest of the world is working. Across the globe in Singapore a group at the Nanyang Technological University has developed a new robotic maid for the top one percent of Americans. While the Jetsons had Rosy, we may … Read more
There is a very good book called “Then Everything Changed” by Jeff Greenfield. In this non-fiction work, Greenfield discusses how the sequence of events could have been different in American History. I remarked to my neighbor in Synagogue this past weekend, what would happen in a similar novel about the Bible – would Ishmael and … Read more
We mourn the death of a true innovator. In the words of Walter Mossberg of the WSJ, “Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives… He was a historical figure on the scale of a Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, and set the mold for many other corporate … Read more
This past Sunday, Thomas Friedman asked “How Did the Robot End Up With My Job?” In his column, Friedman suggested that the current recession can be blamed on technology and globalization. This arcane way of thinking is being heralded in the caverns of lower Manhattan’s “Occupy Wall Street” chaos. I suppose in the early 1900s, … Read more