Daily Archives: January 26, 2018
Can we survive total automation?
Walmart employs 2.3 million people. Of all the companies that can most benefit from automation in an already sleeked down warehouse model, they’re probably the ones most likely to embrace automation to replace workers. If even half the the employees are put out of work,
Modern medicine infected by the virus of mistrust
Medical Press details the struggle of credibility for medicine and health in the social media age Read the article here
The Conversation: Social Media’s role in disrupting our effectiveness
For large or small problems in modern history, reason and responsible decisions have been our best tools in coming to workable solutions. However, the body of knowledge and understanding that we have access to usually comes from sources, rather than an unbiased pool of information.
A jawbone could push the date back that humans left Africa
The oldest human fossils ever found outside Africa suggest that Homo sapiens might have spread to the Arabian Peninsula around 180,000 years ago — much earlier than previously thought. The upper jaw and teeth, found in an Israeli cave and reported in Science on 25 January1, pre-date other human