The domestic robot gets closer with Figure 01, powered by Open AI. But does automated servitude degrade our humanity? Or liberate it? TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kane14 March 2024robots, automation, domesticity, choresComment
Here's a very good argument against space settlements on Mars or the Moon. But also for space research that saves the Earth PLANETARIAN, INGENUITY, GLOBALISTS, FUTURES, TECHNOLOGYpat kane12 January 2024robots, robotics, space flight, space, mars, the moonComment
Cats cavort in a techno-utopia, self-driving cars subverted, and teaching your LLM how to love. AI examined in the Science Gallery London ARTISTS, INGENUITY, TECHNOLOGY, FUTURES, NEW ECONOMICS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kane21 June 2023artificial intelligence, robotsComment
Why the robot revolution should be propelled by the aspiration to leisure, not the dominance of work, says Robert Skidelsky NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTOR, TECHNOLOGYpat kane22 December 2019robots, automation, leisureComment
How we can best prepare for job automation - and for the strengthening of our communities too FUTURESpat kane7 January 2019automation, work, robotsComment
Robots and AI: all the things they’ll do. We must apply our intelligence for the best result, says Martin Ford FUTURES, TECHNOLOGYpat kane26 November 2018artificial intelligence, robots
If robots and A.I. are replacing human jobs outright, should we tax them when they do? BIG PICTURE, FUTURES, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane9 September 2018automation, artificial intelligence, robots
Tax the robots? California (and Bill Gates) is thinking about it. Should we? FUTURES, NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTOR, CREATIVE INDUSTRIESpat kane6 September 2017robots, automation, bill gates, california, basic income
How robotics can improve our understanding of disability 4TH SECTOR, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kane6 May 2017robots, automation, disability
"No one should do work that can be done by a machine" FUTURES, 4TH SECTOR, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane26 April 2017automation, robots, work