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Friday 8th of May 2026

2016 Presidential election The real job killer in America is auto- mation, robotics, artificial intelligence. You're not going to lose because your neighbor's child gets a chance to go to college. You're not going to lose because a hard-working immigrant family starts a small business. That's good for you! We never made that case. And the message from Trump was a retrograde message of nostalgia: “We can go back to the way things were. You don't have to compete with a woman for a job. Or with a striving young immigrant.” It's a falsehood that gave some comfort to people and gave them permission to scapegoat others. Hillary Clinton © 2017 Kwiple.com
Aging This year, there will be more people over 65 than under five for the first time in human history. By 2060, the number of Americans over 65 will double, to 98m, while in Japan, 40% of the population will be 65 or older. There will not be enough younger people to look after so many, unless robots help (and probably an influx of migrants is permitted, too). Economist, February 16, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Artificial intelligence Paid-by-the-hour workers in low-wage industries such as retailing will be especially vulnerable. That could fuel a resurgence of labour unions seeking to represent employees' interests and to set norms. Even then, the choice in some jobs will be between being replaced by a robot or being treated like one. The Economist, March 31, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say  The more robots we use, the more time our associates can spend with customers © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Weight in ounces of a Stanford-engineered team of six micro-robots capable of pulling a 3,900-pound car: 3.5 Harper's Index, June 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Car culture A survey by Accenture found that only 2 per cent of car executives “plan to significantly increase investment” in reskilling programmes, even though most acknowledge that workers require new skill sets to work with robotics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Financial Times, June 17, 2018 [They rather hire new workers] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Healthcare We will probably have an AI family doctor on our smartphone years before we have a reliable nurse robot. Yuval Noah Harari, Nature, October 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary reshoring (ri shôr'ing), n. Replacing low-paid workers overseas with cheaper robots here. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say  Ban robots from sidewalks NOW, before they multiply like rabbits © 2017 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Being the person-in-its-loop (PIIL) standing by ready to assist a robot when it doesn't know what to do © 2016 Kwiple.com
Manufacturing Driving U.S. Factories: Foreign Robotics — — — — — — — — — — — Manufacturing rebound means buying modern machinery from overseas headline, Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say How are you going to get them to buy Fords? Walter Reuther, leader of the United Automobile Workers, responding to a Ford Motor Company official who, pointing to robots in a newly opened fully automated engine plant, said, “How are you going to collect   union dues from these guys?” [many variations exist] © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots All we're going to see in our own lifetimes are intelligent tools, not colleagues. Don't think of them as colleagues, don't try to make them colleagues and, above all, don't kid yourself that they're colleagues. Daniel Dennett, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots Businesses turn to software robots for office work — — — — — — — — — — — The rise of the bots promises to bring sweeping changes for cubicle dwellers. Some 4m of these people in the US are likely to see their jobs taken over by the end of 2021, says Craig Le Clair, an analyst at Forrester Research. Each bot can handle the work it would take three or four full-time workers to perform, he says. And at $8,000- $9,000 a year in licensing fees, they are a lot cheaper. Financial Times, March 9, 2018, on robotic process automation (RPA) software, which “takes the robot out of the human” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Robots A computer doesn't need to replicate the entire spectrum of your intellectual capability in order to displace you from your job; it only needs to do the specific things you are paid to do. Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots A decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers – those who remain – assist the robots in theirs. Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker, October 23, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three- fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu of M.I.T. and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University. It appears to be the first study to quantify large, direct, negative effects of robots. … The researchers said they were surprised to see very little employ- ment increase in other occupations to offset the job losses in manufacturing. New York Times, March 28, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture — — — — — — — — — — — Like humans, the robot had a little help to start: It was fed a kind of manual, a set of ordered instructions on how the pieces fit together. After that, it was on its own. headline and excerpt, New York Times, AugSust 18, 2018 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots They're always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there's never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex or race discrimination case. Andrew Puzder, extolling the virtues of robots compared to workers in his restaurants © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots US goods imports contracted 11 per cent in the first eight months of the year compared with the same period last year, but imports of industrial robots rose 5 per cent, according to data from the US International Trade Commission. … Digital interaction with customers has accelerated the equivalent of many years in just months, according to a recent survey of business executives by the consultancy McKinsey.  Changes in digital and technology adoption  are taking place about 25 times faster than before the pandemic, the survey found. Financial Times, October 20, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Robots Well, we're just going to replace them all with robots. Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, responding to concerns expressed about discontent among Uber's drivers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots say I am the robot, you are the human. This is the beginning of a beautiful story. I like humans. Humans are so cute. Pepper, a humanoid companion robot developed by Aldebaran, a French company Quoted in Financial Times, May 6, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Robots say Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Let's dispel, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is doing. … Marco Rubio © 2015 Kwiple.com
Robots say We're all human beings. I get that. I'm not an algorithm. Neil Gorsuch © 2017 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Getting firms to bring money home by lowering taxes on profits earned abroad will create more jobs for humans here than for robots © 2017 Kwiple.com
Social media If you don't have haters, you ain't poppin'. A woman quoted in Get Rich or Lie Trying, Symeon Brown's book about social media influencers, who was trolled for a video that went viral of her performing a sex act on a robot © 2022 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Robot-staffed hotels © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say DOWHILE desperate job seekers { Load ’em up with debt Pay ’em a pittance Replace ’em with robots Walk away with millions } --> © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Tech bros say Replace other people with robots © 2016 Kwiple.com