Within two or three decades the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own …
Source: Moral Machines – The New Yorker
Month: November 2012
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants – CNET
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
Source: Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants – CNET
5 Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to Be Real | Cracked.com
You believe in monsters, whether you know it or not. They are an important part of who we are — so let’s understand this obsession.
Source: 5 Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to Be Real | Cracked.com
How a Robot Will Steal Your Job
On a visit to Standard Motor Products’ fuel-injector assembly line in South Carolina, Atlantic writer Adam Davidson asked why a worker there, Maddie, was welding caps onto the injectors herself. Why not use a machine? That’s how a lot of the factory’s other tasks were performed. Maddie’s supervisor, Tony, had a bracing, direct answer: “Maddie is cheaper than a machine.”
It was just this week that Foxconn, the Chinese company that manufactures so many of America’s favorite gadgets, initiated a plan to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers. When that day comes, thousands of men and women working at Apple’s Chinese manufacturing plants will be unemployed. You’ll have to wonder—in spite of notorious labor abuses at Foxconn—were those jobs better than none?
Source: How a Robot Will Steal Your Job
