Tag: Robots
Where SMEs should start in automating IT
Why the uptake of automation has been slow so far, and where to start now.
Read the full article...Don’t Shout at the Telly: The Future of Work
In this engaging on-the-sofa discussion, young volunteers for WORLDwrite, a charity, quiz James on IT and jobs
Read the full article...Warum die amerikanische Wirtschaft schwächelt
Der Verlust von Jobs im Produktionssektor kann nicht einfach China oder der Automatisierung zugeschrieben werden.
Read the full article...Myths and Realities of the Future of Work
In this keynote address to 300 delegates at Oracle’s Modern Business Conference at ExCel, East London, James challenged the perceived wisdom about IT, so as to highlight where real opportunities may be found
Read the full article...The robots aren’t taking over
The idea that IT is surpassing human beings sells us short
Read the full article...Financial services: is a robot stealing your job?
This keynote speech, delivered for the financial IT platform Intelliflo, looked at technology advances from both a consumer and business point of view
Read the full article...Retail 2020: Of robots, shelves and packs
In all today’s euphoric-apocalyptic hysteria about how the robots are coming, one sector is woefully neglected (1).
Read the full article...Design and the future of IT
I will tell you one thing about IT. In international design, the Powers That Be are infatuated with it.
Read the full article...Invasion of the sexbots? Get a grip
In 1988, before the internet arrived in anybody’s house, I helped lead Britain’s first study of e-commerce – what was then known as ‘teleshopping’.
Read the full article...The robots are not taking over
Stephen Hawking may be scared, but AI promises to help, not hinder us.
Read the full article...Innovative technologies in manufacturing
These short video presentations cover a range of innovations and new technologies within manufacturing, describing the opportunities for growth and development open to SMEs over the next 10 years. Sponsored by Epicor Software.
Read the full article...Seven reasons we should celebrate manufacturing
Commentators bemoaning the rise of ‘stuffocation’ miss the benefits manufacturing provides.
Read the full article...The robots are coming – but not fast enough
The claim that mechanisation is sweeping away jobs in a wave of innovation bears little relation to reality.
Read the full article...China struggles to engineer robot revolution
Just as China’s strengths in cyberwar have stirred Western perceptions of a nation on the move, so its talents in robotics could be the stuff of nightmares.
Read the full article...The most innovative age ever? Five industries for 2020
Here are five key, job-creating yet high-productivity sectors which, with the help of design, could finally move into the 21st century. Published in Mandarin
我们处在人类最富创新力的时代吗?
中信集团2013年培训课
Read the full article...Is man’s best friend a robot’s worst enemy?
Last month, Gartner vice president Jackie Fenn suggested that mobile robots are among the technologies that have “begun to be interesting to business”. So what’s happening in mobile and general robotics?
Read the full article...Let robots take the strain
Robots have the potential to revolutionise peoples’ lives, but Whitehall doesn’t want to fund the research
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Good luck to the #farmers on their march today!
I probably don't need to tell you to wrap up warm. But please remember that no part of the UK's green agenda is your friend. All of it is intended to deprive you of your livelihood, one way or another. That is its design.
Brilliant piece by @danielbenami. RECOMMENDED
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls