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Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation

Bob Reselman | April 21, 2020 | automation, COVID-19, digital economy, digital workers, employment, information technology, IT jobs

Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the ...

Full-Time Employment in the Age of Automation

Bob Reselman | March 5, 2019 | automation, employment, robotics, robots, technology, workforce

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a short essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," in which he predicted that in a hundred years the 15-hour work week will be ...

The ‘Blockbuster Effect’ in the Age Of Automation

Bob Reselman | March 19, 2018 | ai, automation, employment, robots

Saying that new jobs will always be created to replace those that have been eliminated by automation is a mechanism for avoiding a real problem that’s lurking on the horizon. In 2004, ...

An Unanticipated Obstacle to Full Automation

Bob Reselman | April 21, 2017 | automation, corporations, devops, employment, jobs, managers, worker displacement

I’ve been concerned about the impact of automation on human employment for a while. My research activity started after November 2016, when I decided I needed to learn whether the much-touted phrase, ...