There Are Only Two Ways This Ends
By AdamKokesh On this episode, Adam discusses the ever-increasing rate of change we are seeing with various technologies. As the rate increases, and the various…
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A.I. Takes Over Hospital Jobs In London, Implantable Smart Devices In Soldiers, And Growing Organs
By Aaron Kesel University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Alan Turing Institute aim to bring ‘game-changing’ benefits of artificial intelligence to NHS patients and…
How Long Before Police “Batmobiles” Patrol Our Streets?
By MassPrivateI Last month The Drive reported that an Israeli firm called Plasan wants to sell their version of a “Batmobile” to U.S. police. Plasan…
Tech Moguls Concerned about Massive Job Loss From Automation Recommend Universal Basic Income (UBI) — Some Plan for “Doomsday”
By B.N. Frank Many of us have loved ones who are victims of Age Discrimination. Some have been forced out and replaced with younger employees. …
Army Wants Soldiers to 3D Print A.I. Robot Squid in Future Missions
By Nicholas West While most of the news over the last several years has been about the ramp-up of drone use across the planet in…
U.S. Military Working To Deploy Robot Ground Vehicles For Urban Combat By 2020
By Nicholas West “Every year, more and more of the world’s population moves into cities. The number of megacities is growing exponentially. Both of these…
New Smart Robot Opens Doors Even When Humans Try To Stop It
By Jake Anderson One of the creepiest parts of the film Jurassic Park is when the velociraptor uses his witch-like claws to manipulate the door handle and…
SPCA Hypocrites Now Using Robots to Scare Away Homeless People
By Truthstream Media Activist Post Editor’s Note: The lack of compassion displayed by the government toward the homeless is already on the rise. But it…
Marx, Robotics and the Collapse of Profits
By Charles Hugh Smith Whatever commoditized robots can produce is no longer profitable; rather, the production destroys capital. Yesterday I discussed how robots only do work…
Misunderstanding the Economics of Robotics
By Charles Hugh Smith Robots are only cost-effective in the narrow niches of commoditized tasks. In the view of Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocates, substituting…
The Real Sharing Economy: Democracy At Work
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne “Once upon a time, when Windows were holes in a room and an Application was written on paper. When a Keyboard…
A Radical Critique of Universal Basic Income
By Charles Hugh Smith This critique reveals the unintended consequences of UBI. Readers have been asking me what I thought of Universal Basic Income (UBI)…
Israel Has Built a Robot Army
By Darius Shahtahmasebi As Israel prepares for yet another war directly on its border, the truth about Israel’s vast military capabilities has been largely absent in…
Why Giving Robots (Objects) Citizenship Is Crazy
By Vin Armani In this video, Vin Armani explains why giving robots citizenship is crazy. Is it to tax them? Is it to marry them?…