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If a wave of automation is coming, which countries are best prepared?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Apr 23, 2018
The U.S. rank might be a bit surprising.
A Sainsbury's employee checks an automated sorting area at Sainsbury's Waltham Point Depot on December 13, 2010 in Waltham Abbey, England.
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How to make technology work for you, not against you

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Apr 10, 2018
Former Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker says we are not doing enough to meet the challenge and opportunity of automation.
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Most millennials think the U.S. should take care of people who lost jobs to automation

by Janet Nguyen and David Brancaccio
Mar 16, 2018
For many, even if that means raising taxes substantially.
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How Levi Strauss & Co. is using lasers to make jeans

by Kai Ryssdal and Josie Fan
Mar 7, 2018
Automation touches many consumer products — the cars we drive, the sneakers we put on and now the jeans we wear.  Levi Strauss & Co. is planning to swap out garment workers for laser machines that could create the worn look on a pair of jeans in less than two minutes. Suzanne Kapner, a reporter […]
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What happens when a new technology that is better for the environment also eliminates jobs?

by Emily Guerin
Feb 9, 2018
A union in California goes up against the rising tide of automation.
Longshoremen working on the ship COSCO Denmark at a non-automated terminal at the Port of Long Beach in 2010.
Photo courtesy of the Port of Long Beach
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Learning your ABCs in the future: reading, writing, coding and AI

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Oct 4, 2017
One AI pioneer said learning the basics of coding and AI could be key to income equality and opportunity in the future.
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After the cart is full: working in e-retail

by Molly Wood
Sep 21, 2017
We all order things online. Here is one person (and a bunch of robots) behind those orders.
Veronica Mena works for the e-retailer Boxed in its Union, New Jersey, warehouse.
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"Whole professions could wink out of existence," a conversation on the future of work

by Molly Wood and Kristin Schwab
Sep 15, 2017
As AI changes the nature of employment and professions, how does society adjust?
In his new book, "Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World,” Cade Metz details the rebranding and rise of AI.
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The robots aren't coming for your job just yet

by Kai Ryssdal and Emily Henderson
Aug 30, 2017
James Surowiecki talks about why we don't need to fear the "Robopocalypse."
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Robot-Proof Jobs

The threat of robots may be a distraction from other economic issues

by David Brancaccio
Jul 28, 2017
Economist Heidi Shierholz makes her case.
Should we really be that threatened by robots?
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