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The following are links to a couple of Bloomberg articles on the use of robots on Wall Street: Want to Protect Your Wall Street Job from Robots? Robots are Coming for these Wall Street Jobs Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts How to Survive Wall Street’s Robot Revolution
[I’m still incredibly lazy and not accomplishing much. I’m still riveted to the news on the hurricanes but it looks like the latest one will definitely NOT enter the Gulf. So maybe now I can stop the binge watching and start doing other things. I have begun to do some art work and readings again…
I tried to do this post this morning but my machine wanted to do something else: either Apple was trying to push something or my security software wanted to do some updates. I can’t tell which was preventing me from doing anything, either going out to the Internet or shutting off my machine. So I…
On Sunday, I wrote that there were signs that jobs were coming back to the U.S. or that new ones utilizing your passions and Uber were being created. But…robots are also coming. One factory in Wisconsin is finding that it must bring in robots because it couldn’t find the skilled talent to replace the looming retirement of…
I’m in the process of taking notes on the book The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee before reading their latest book that provides prescriptions on what kind of skills you need for the machine age. The Second Machine Age book has a lot of great materials and a chapter on what we…
We’re on our third year with our automated operational reporting, which has been rolled out to both sides of the house. It kind of gives me a secret thrill to think that once a week, everyone comes in to work in the morning, opens up the file and lets the program do its magic. And if they…