FutureworkNZ blog

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In Berkeley, California last week I met the Kiwibots – a tribe of 4-wheeled robots about the size of…

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As the opening chords of Country Calendar play, feel-good nostalgia for rural New Zealand washes ove…

Technological progress need not eliminate jobs; automation can allow new and expanded worthwhile act…

Biotech. Nanotech. Cleantech. Gene tech. Cloud computing tech. Successive waves of technological cha…

This graphic caught my eye. It accompanies the article Robots and Us in today’s Otago Daily Times.