What an Internet company wants with a bunch of robots
Science, Tech, Environment
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Technology’s Invisible Future
When technology gets so advanced, it disappears.
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Plan for Robotification of Everything Proceeding Apace
Amazon wants to deliver your deodorant with a drone.
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When Robots Take Over, What Happens to Us?
We interviewed James Barrat, author of Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, to see what happens when we’re no longer the most intelligent inhabitants of Earth.
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Twitter Is Neither Our Salvation Nor Our Doom
Don’t believe the hype, or the dire prophesies either.
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Facebook Is Watching You
And they want to watch you more closely than you could have imagined. Will people be comfortable with it?
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Why Are Police Shootings of Innocents on the Rise?
Budget shortfalls have left police departments without the funds to properly train officers on using their firearms.
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Healthcare.gov 2: The Contractors’ Search for More Money
The Obama administration’s fatal mistake was treating the health-care exchanges like any other big contracting project.
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Eric Schlosser, Bard of Folly
What the Command and Control author is teaching Americans about our reliance on technology.
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The Robot Invasion
The question that haunted the post-war industrial tech boom of the 1950s is rising again: Have we reached a stage at which technology is destroying more jobs than it’s creating?
