IS AUTOMATION ELIMINATING JOBS? “Martin Ford — who joined us on FastForward Radio not long ago — directs us to this story about HP planning to cut 9000 jobs via automation. This development looks like more support for Martin’s thesis, outlined in his book The Lights in the Tunnel, that automation is advancing at a rate that makes the displacement of most human beings from the workforce inevitable (and sooner than you would think.)”

I, for one, welcome our new robot employees. I feel like I’m safe, though. Before they can replace me, they’ve got to figure out what it is, exactly, that I do.