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Drones Are Not Just Airplanes Anymore

By |November 10th, 2018|Categories: Futurism|

Stars and Stripes reports that the United States Navy has begun testing the world’s largest unmanned ship.The Sea Hunter is an entirely new class of ocean-going vessel.

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Bill Gates is With Us!

By |February 20th, 2017|Categories: Replacing Workplace Community|

Multiple organizations, ranging from USA Today to Fortune, are reporting that Microsoft founder Bill Gates endorsed taxrobots most fundamental statement -“When a robot takes a human being’s job, transfer the human’s tax burden to the robot: tax the robot.”

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A Place to Start: Save the Cashiers

By |February 19th, 2017|Categories: Replacing Workplace Community|

The Washington Post recently published two articles that effectively illustrate the double edged sword of advanced robotics. Ruchir Sharma’s December 2 opinion piece affirming that “Robots won’t kill the workforce …” conveniently, misses more than half of the issue by showing only the wealth production aspects of robotics.

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The Double Edged Sword

By |January 1st, 2017|Categories: Avoiding Dystopia|

The Washington Post recently published two articles that effectively illustrate the double edged sword of advanced robotics. Ruchir Sharma’s December 2 opinion piece affirming that “Robots won’t kill the workforce …” conveniently, misses more than half of the issue by showing only the wealth production aspects of robotics.

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Disruption in Manufacturing

By |December 17th, 2016|Categories: Helping Workers Adapt|

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States manufacturing employment rose from 1945 to a peak of about 20 million jobs in 1980. It then dropped by about 8 million, or 40%, from 1980 to 2015 while manufacturing output almost doubled. Doubling output while reducing labor by almost half was the result of automation and robotics.

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Truckers as an Example

By |June 21st, 2015|Categories: Robot Taxation Strategies|

The trucking business is extremely complex and this brief discussion of it is vastly oversimplified but the key points remain: disruption in an industry has major effects years or decades after it occurs; and self-driving trucks and delivery vehicles are about to produce a disruption of unprecedented scale.

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