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Where Tomorrow Meets Today

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“Let me persuade you to come to the place where tomorrow meets today,” a voice-over invites near the beginning of Design for Dreaming, a General Motors promotional film from 1956.…

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The Crisis of Work

Host , Guest , on April 24, 2023

It’s more complicated than “take this job and shove it”

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Routine Maintenance

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Embracing habit in an automated world

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Is Poverty Necessary?

by , on June 5, 2019

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

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Is Poverty Necessary?

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An idea that won’t go away

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Turndown Service

From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…

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The Future of Work

by , on November 30, 2018

No bleaker than it’s ever been

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Lunch at the Robot Grill

by , on September 4, 2014

What Japan’s automats portend for American restaurant chains

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Sick in the Head

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Why America won't get the health-care system it needs

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The coming robot army

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Introducing America's future fighting machines

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Paper jam

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