Category: Jobs Sustainability

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Robots and Jobs, Part 2

In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the widespread concern that the growth of artificial intelligence systems will create a permanent crisis in unemployment as they displace more and more workers.

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Robots and Jobs, Part 1

At the 2014 World Economic Forum, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, stated, “The race is between computers and people and the people need to win. I am clearly on that side.

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Labor Day 2013

In the United States, the first Monday each September is set aside to honor the contribution that working people have made to America’s progress and prosperity. There really hasn’t been much to

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The Benefits of Big Data

Rick Neil from Percepture directed me to a great infographic (shown below) that was created by neolane (www.neolane.com). The infographic is entitled “Transforming Big Data into Actionable Insight.” In my discussions about

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Managing Robots

“In Isaac Asimov’s classic series of short stories I, Robot,” writes Tim Criswell, President of Wynright Robotics, “he lists the first law of robotics as, ‘A robot may not injure a human

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Meet Baxter — Your New Co-worker

In yesterday’s post (Robots and the Future of Manufacturing), I discussed the impact that robots are having (and will likely to have) on jobs and manufacturing in the future. As I noted

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Robots and the Future of Manufacturing

British entrepreneur Luke Johnson writes, “Modern plants use robots and increasingly few workers and run day and night, 365 days a year.” [“Making it in the new industrial revolution,” Financial Times, 28

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