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Synopsis The impact of technology on employment has been a topic of anxiety and study for generations with mixed results. Cars didn’t kill trains, television didn’t end radio. iStock Some argue that turning over repetitive jobs to robots will free up workers to take on new roles in what is now a booming industry -- elderly care. For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no. They feared that every time a machine was slipped into the workflow, a laborer lost a job. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a small but significant...

Butler on Wheels, Robot Cutting Salad: How Covid Sped Automation Bloomberg 12/14/2020 Olivia Rockeman, James Attwood and Joe Deaux (Bloomberg) -- For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no. They feared that every time a machine was slipped into the workflow, a laborer lost a job. Popular Searches The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a small but significant shift in that calculation. Because human contact spreads the disease, some machines are now viewed not exclusively as the workers’ enemy but also as the...

  f the past on nuclear, Independent Australia, 13 Dec 20, By Helen Caldicott | 13 December 2020 “………What rained down on those two Japanese cities seventy-five years ago was destruction on a scale never seen before or since. People exposed within half a mile of the atomic fireball were seared to piles of smoking char in a fraction of a second as their internal organs boiled away. The small black bundles stuck to the streets and bridges and sidewalks of Hiroshima numbered in the thousands. A little boy was reaching up to catch a red dragonfly with his hand against the blue sky w...