Will Big Data Get Too Big for the Metric System to Handle?
It’s dizzying to contemplate, but it might not be long before the volume of digital data surpasses the current limit of measures.In 1991, the General Conference on Weights and Measures met to add a few...
View ArticleSmall Factories Give Baxter the Robot a Cautious Once-Over
Rethink Robotics invented a $22,000 humanoid robot that competes with low-wage workers.Chris Budnick is head of Vanguard Plastics, a small injection-molding operation in Southington, Connecticut, that...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class
How will a mass influx of robots affect human employment?In the book Race Against the Machine, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of MIT’s Sloan School of Management present a chart showing U.S....
View ArticleHow Machines Are Advancing at an Exponential Rate
With The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explore the future for technology.The Second Machine Age debuted at number nine this month on The New York Times’ hardcover non-fiction...
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