(Reuters) -Walmart Inc on Tuesday said it expects about 65% of its stores to be serviced by automation by the end of its fiscal year 2026, just days after revealing plans to lay off more than 2,000 people at facilities …
The United States today is producing roughly the same amount of goods and services as before the coronavirus pandemic — but with 8.2 million fewer workers, equal to the combined payrolls of every employer in Virginia, Arizona and Iowa. Greater …
by visualcapitalist View the high resolution version of today’s graphic by clicking here. Over the last decade, the prospect of mass automation has seemingly shifted from a vague possibility to an inescapable reality. While it’s still incredibly difficult to estimate the ultimate …
by SP The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite (Fm NYT) DAVOS, Switzerland — They’ll never admit it in public, but many of your bosses want machines to replace you as soon as possible. I know this because, …
by Spencer P Morrison, NEE A customer can have a car painted any color he wants as long as it’s black. ~Henry Ford In 1908 the American industrialist and culture hero Henry Ford released the Model T. What made the Model T so …
via failedevolution: Younger generations have been ‘trained’ by the dominant culture to act in more ‘pragmatic’ terms in the arena of a brutal economic cynicism. As the fight for a place in this system becomes harder and harder, more and more …
by Geoffrey Grider CITIGROUP’S INVESTMENT BANK COULD AUTOMATE AS MANY AS 10,000 JOBS WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, A CHILLING FORECAST WARNS. EDITOR’S NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure, I worked doing UI/UX design at Citibank in Jacksonville, Florida, from 2011-2013. At that …
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