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Automation

A giant robotic arm loads pallets full of chainsaws prepared for shipping at the Stihl Inc. production plant in Virginia Beach, Va.

The Italian job: Part II

Authors examine in “Reshoring may create new job opportunities, although primarily for workers whose skills are complementary to robots,” how automation shifts the material realities and, in turn, the political preferences, of workers.

Workers wash and dry chopped lettuce at a Taylor Farms processing plant in Salinas, California on September 10, 2019. In recent years, the company has started incorporating automation in its facility.

How immigrant workers are preparing for automation in agriculture

Global Nation Education
Automation

Meet LoweBot, a customer-service robot here to give you ‘superpowers’

Jobs
A robot helper at work.

Almost half of what we do at work could be automated by 2055

Business

How advances in automation will change the future of work

Technology
Google self-driving car

Automation in our jobs is both a blessing and a curse

Technology

More and more tasks are being handled by specialized machines. There’s the autopilot for flying planes, automated mail sorters at the post office and, perhaps soon, even a self-driving car. But all this automation comes at a price.

Robot with a face

Could technology replace you at work and put wealth in the hands of the few?

Business

You’ve got a college education, maybe a higher degree and a professional job. Surely you aren’t threatened at work by technology, right? Think again, say two scientists at the MIT Center for Digital Business. But they also predict a coming golden age of free time and creativity.

China, U.S. to seek way to end production, use of climate change causing HFCs

Environment

HFCs were supposed to be the way we saved the ozone. And they did. But at a new cost: climate change. These gases, which are used in refrigerators and air conditioners to produce cool air, trap heat in the atmosphere at a greater rate than carbon dioxide, as much as 1000 times, leading to climate change.

Turn off your air conditioner

Business, Economics and Jobs

It may be hot, but air conditioners are robbing people of the ability to withstand heat. One man wants to stop it.

Dollars and Change in Myanmar

Your ATM card won’t work in Myanmar. The latest-edition travel books travel websites, and the US Embassy will tell you that. As you may have heard, though, things here are changing.