The use of AI in the workplace will reach its inevitable zenith circa 2118, producing near universal unemployment in the American economy. Super capable or super-C machines will replace men and women in virtually all professions, crafts and trades. From CEO to junior associate, from seasoned professional to newbie, human workers will be replaced by…

The widespread introduction of byte-collar workers into almost every profession, craft and trade will affect the American workplace in a countless number of ways. The transformation will invalidate long-held assumptions and principles, upset established relationships and procedures and force the development of new definitions and standards. Two of these effects, in particular, will be momentous:•…

The evidence is compelling. Last year, two economists, Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo, published a report on their research covering the period 1990-2007 and found that each industrial robot installed on an assembly line eliminated 6.2 human jobs. The New York Federal Reserve did a study of blue and white collar jobs and concluded that…

If you’re less than fifty years old, your role at work will definitely be affected. And if you’re over 50 but still working, yours will be as well. When machines become smarter than people, every working man and woman will experience profound and permanent change in their occupation, their career and their access to the…

It’s been a very busy fall, what with kids’ soccer games and Gramps lingering illness. Time has gotten away from you, and suddenly you freeze up with panic. You’ve not done a thing to get ready for Thanksgiving, and it’s your turn to host the family. Four couples, eight kids and grumpy Aunt Ellen will…

National Geographic has just reported that large numbers of elephants are now being born without tusks. Poachers have killed off so many of those with tusks that only the 2-4 percent normally born without them are populating today’s herds. It is yet another tragic example of how human behavior can damage the natural order of…

Stop what you’re doing for a minute. Turn everything off. Just stand still and listen. What you’re hearing is the empty echo chamber of the silent American workplace. Yes, that’s hard to believe given where the economy is right now. But, so was the environmental crisis when Rachel Carson first wrote about it in her…

Hollywood has been masterful at exploiting humankind’s greatest fear in the modern age – that we will create machines infinitely stronger and smarter than we are – and those machines will terminate our position as the superior creation on the planet. That’s what SkyNet was all about, right? Robots replacing humans at the top of…