Automation arrives at restaurants

McDonald's will start using automated ordering:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2837810/automation-arrives-at-restaurants-but-dont-blame-rising-minimum-wages.html

An army of robot baristas could mean the end of Starbucks as we know it

"...Starbucks’ 95,000 baristas have a competitor. It doesn’t need sleep. It’s precise in a way that a human could never be. It requires no training. It can’t quit. It has memorized every one of its customers’ orders. There’s never a line for its perfectly turned-out drinks.

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It doesn’t require health insurance..."

More at: http://qz.com/134661/briggo-coffee-army-of-robot-baristas-could-mean-the-end-of-starbucks-as-we-know-it/

No more cowboys, GPS will do just fine!

Herding and fences are so last century, a GPS unit can do it!

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671913/gps-sensor-tags-that-make-cowboys-and-fences-obsolete

Robot named Baxter Promises to Bring Jobs Back to US

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509296/small-factories-give-baxter-the-robot-a-cautious-once-over/

Paul Krugman on Automation and Third Industrial Revolution

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/is-growth-over/

"Better Than Human" article in Wired

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs/

Paul Krugman on the Rise of the Robots

A must read NYT editorial: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/rise-of-the-robots/