The Week of the Robots.

As many of you know I have spent a good portion of the summer working on a book about how technology will be replacing human labor. It has been a lot of fun doing the research and writing,
but I think that by the time I finish writing it turn out to be a history book instead of a book about
the future. It seems like every blog I have read over the last week or so has been talking about
robots.

Here are the biggest stories about robots lately:

Foxconn Employees Are Being Replaced By Robot Workers

Army sending robo-jeeps to Afghanistan

Pod Cars, Moving Silently at Heathrow’s Terminal 5

There have been other articles, but those are the ones that just blew me a way, because before I left for summer break I had a hard time convincing people that this kind of technology 

even existed. Now it seems like it is everywhere. Great for the world, but horrible for my book. 

At least there is a silver lining for my book among all this good news, and though it may not have been technology's fault, it still might slow down the breakneck speed at which automation is coming into our daily lives;

Google’s self-driving car has its first accident