On 1/14/13 1:16 PM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
But an automated boat wouldn't be completely 'empty' and its failure
to navigate would be grounds for anger (at those damned engineers).
On 60 minutes last night was (another) piece on robotics. One point
was that the U.S. could be competitive in manufacturing again by
replacing high wage earners with robots (which end up being about $3 an
hour according Rodney Brooks' company). They went on to say:
"To make that concrete, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are now all
public companies. Combined, they have something close to $1 trillion in
market capitalization. Together, the four of them employ fewer than
150,000 people, and that's less than the number of new entrants into the
American workforce every month and the number of employees that work for
GE."
Marcus
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