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That's it for #robots! Thanks for following along. about 11 hours ago via web
If robots will change the job landscape so much, should students aim for law school and medical school? #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
Ford: Entry-level jobs could also be highly automated in the future #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
Martin Ford: Ppl likely to be hit the hardest are corporate drone-types, who don't have protections docs and lawyers have #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
.@tylercowen: Ppl not conscientious enough to succeed in robot economy may end up marginalized #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
Martin Ford: solution to the robot economy is a guaranteed-income system where not everyone has job. Politically hard to imagine #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
What would be better at a task, a specialized machine or a working-class person with a brain implant? #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
"Why are we assuming machines will get really good and the humans will stay behind?" asks @fmanjoo. Machines may improve us #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
.@tylercowen: Drugs may be competing force. If really fun & totally safe, it's really going to cut into personal service industry. #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
guardiantech Sock puppets, twitterjacking and the art of digital fakery bit.ly/pAnWEn about 11 hours ago via twitterfeed Retweeted by FutureTenseNow and 27 others
Michael Lind: Don't teach your kids STEM. Computers will take those jobs. Teach your children to be obsequious and friendly. #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
.@tylercowen: In the post-robot world, we'll end up hiring other people to cheer us up. #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
Michael Lind: Eventually, if we get HAL-type computers, will have to rethink wage labor. #robotics about 11 hours ago via web
Michael Lind: My father believed that by 1950, the automaton would rule the restaurant world. But we want to be around ppl #robotics about 12 hours ago via web
.@fmanjoo would rather have a human "personal shopper" than a computer one #robotics about 12 hours ago via web
.@tylercowen: Smart machines will always be complements. But what the jobs they are complementing may have to adapt #robotics about 12 hours ago via web
.@tylercowen As long as total output is going up, there's always optimistic corners to these pictures #robotics about 12 hours ago via web
.@tylercowen "When smart machines really take off, there will be much more output." Will be more wealth. #robotics about 12 hours ago via web
Martin Ford: Old tech less disruptive because was mechanical, usually focused on one industry at a time. Now more broad-based. #robotics about 12 hours ago via web
Martin Ford: "Historically, technology has advanced and the economy has always adapted to that" But new techs are v. different #robotics about 12 hours ago via web

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