by Leroy Hurt | Jun 29, 2013 | Issues.Employment, Issues.Progress, Sectors.SciTech
Via TCS Daily: What kinds of jobs would survive? Two kinds, I think. The obvious kinds are those needing the human touch…I suspect that a lot of jobs that could theoretically be taken by machines won’t be, because people will still prefer the human version…But...
by Leroy Hurt | May 4, 2013 | Issues.Employment, Sectors.SciTech.Robotics
Via Charleston Gazette: A new partnership between the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing and a national robotics company will teach workers the necessary skills to help shorten a “skills gap” in the state, an RCBI spokesman said...
by Leroy Hurt | May 4, 2013 | Issues.Employment, Sectors.SciTech.Robotics
Via Charleston Gazette: A new partnership between the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing and a national robotics company will teach workers the necessary skills to help shorten a “skills gap” in the state, an RCBI spokesman said...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 27, 2013 | Issues.Employment, Sectors.SciTech.Robotics
Via Drudge and CNBC: Many experts worry about what robots in the service sector could do to employment. The national unemployment rate remains at 7.7 percent – not remotely close to the 4.7 percent unemployment in 2007 before the recession. Job growth isn’t...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 27, 2013 | Issues.Employment, Sectors.SciTech.Robotics
Via Drudge and CNBC: Many experts worry about what robots in the service sector could do to employment. The national unemployment rate remains at 7.7 percent – not remotely close to the 4.7 percent unemployment in 2007 before the recession. Job growth isn’t...
by Leroy Hurt | Mar 27, 2013 | Issues.Economic development, Issues.Employment
Via The Burning Platform: If consumers, who account for 71% of the economy, aren’t spending, and small business owners, who do 65% of all the hiring in the country, are petrified with insecurity, why is the stock market hitting all-time highs and the corporate media...
