The Robots Are Up To Something, And It Might Have A Lot To Do With You

Hold on to your hard hats and laptops, folks, because the future is upon us. The machines are moving in!


Not to belabor the point (sorry), but while a large part of the world won’t see this first wave of white-collar robots, we want to be thinking about education and job transition programs that help ease EVERYONE toward an automated workplace. This includes, apparently, doing a better job of sitting around and being waited on — by robots! Make that dry. Two olives.

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