Here Comes Sawyer; There Goes Your Job!
Senator Jeff Sessions’ April 9 Washington Post op-ed provides a useful immigration history summary, and an update on the dire employment picture... Read More
Coming Soon: Robots in the Cockpit
In commercial aviation’s earlier days, the flight deck had a captain, copilot and a navigator. On longer flights, a second crew would... Read More
Replacing Laborers with Robots
Fast food workers are demanding higher wages for the hard work they do. Some call for an increase of their pay rate,... Read More
With Robots Making Inroads, More Immigration is the Last Thing the U.S. Economy Needs
Right here in Pittsburgh, my hometown, robots have been credited with resurrecting the Steel City from its 30-year slump. In 1983, Pittsburgh’s... Read More
Not Enough Illegal Farm Workers?
California supposedly now has an “illegal immigrant shortage” – not enough illegal workers for farms in the state, according to “Bloomberg Businessweek”... Read More
Man vs. Machine
Man vs. Machine is a long-running theme explored by futurists and well-mined by filmmakers and science fiction writers (I’m partial to Blade... Read More