This country needs more automation, and less, er, breeding. --Doug
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- *Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected]* *http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins*<http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> * <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-672-8213 - Mobile*
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