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Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"For thousands of years, humans have used machines to accomplish tasks more efficiently and often to complete tasks people simply can't do on their own. Now, modern technology allows inventors to design robots capable of amazing feats that used to seem unthinkable. The STEM of Robots examines how automation revolutionized the world in the 1940s and has grown and changed over time. The book includes information about how cutting-edge factories use...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cloud computing, big data, the mobile workforce and social networking have all been a part of a watershed of recent technology developments that have been the drivers of unprecedented and far reaching socio-economic change. In this report, Jonathan Crane, Chief Commercial officer at IP Soft, discusses what is forecast to be the next big wave of technology innovation - "automation." Automation holds the promise to further improve product quality, lower...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Enterprises today rely on technology, control systems, robotics and automated machinery to deliver high-quality products and services to global markets quickly and cost effectively. Experts tell us that the next major wave of innovation will center on the expansion of automated processes as industries and organizations look to further drive down costs, improve product quality and time-to-market. This expansion which analysts are calling "job" or "labor"...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of life processes as they evolve from bacteria (1.0) to humans...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The machines are here. After decades of sci-fi doomsaying and marketing hype, advanced A.I. and automation technologies have leapt out of research labs and Silicon Valley engineering departments and into the center of our lives. Robots once primarily threatened blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but today's machines are being trained to do the work of lawyers, doctors, investment bankers, and other white-collar jobs previously considered safe from automation's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn how this technology really works by following two library systems that are using RFID technology, Baltimore County Public Library (MD) and Haverstraw King's Daughter Public Library (NY). Managers from both systems discuss their experiences with this technology, as well as give tips for libraries considering implementing RFID. In addition, technology consultant David Dorman offers his perspectives on the issues surrounding RFID. --“This straight...
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English
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"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Native rural Virginian and now Chief technology officer at Microsoft, Kevin Scott, discusses the future of AI and how it can be realistically used to promote growth even as the job landscape shifts"--
"There are two prevailing stories about AI: for heartland low- and middle-skill workers, a dystopian tale of steadily increasing job destruction; for urban knowledge workers and the professional class, a utopian tale of enhanced productivity and convenience....
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