Two recent pieces on the emerging robot society:

Boing Boing:

Robots are taking your job and mine: deal with it

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/01/robots-are-taking-your-job-and.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

“Two striking articles on the roboticization of the workforce: first is Kevin Kelly in Wired, with “Better Than Human”, an optimistic and practical-minded look at the way that robots change the jobs landscape, with some advice on how to survive the automation of your gig.”

“Now, contrast that robot-human co-existence manifesto with Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines, an excerpt from Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy , a new book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee that’s being serialized in The Atlantic.”

Stephen