Sociology of Robotics

Here’s an article by John Markoff  from the New York Times this week about the fear that robots will affect jobs. 

It cites a recent book “Race Against the Machine,” by McAfee and Brynjolfsson of MIT. “They argue that the pace of automation is accelerating and that robotics is pushing into new areas of the work force like white-collar jobs that were previously believed to be beyond the scope of computers.”

The bulk of the article is about the robotics Tradeshow currently under way in which, of course, this view was vehemently disputed.