In Episode 209, we examine robot replacement, automation, artificial intelligence, and how GM just laid off 1,000 workers and replaced them with 50 robots.

We discuss Detroit, General Motors, factory assembly lines, IBM, robotics, manufacturing, time clocks, blue-collar jobs, labor shortages, productivity, industrial automation, and why we should insist that our production lines be human-manned.

We explore transhumanism, technological progress, the Industrial Revolution, inventions throughout history, engineering, efficiency, and how innovation seems to shift power into the hands of a smaller and smaller few. We discuss feudalism, the shrinking middle class, economic displacement, tipping points, and the future of work in an increasingly automated society.

We examine beauty being in the eye of the beholder, Rod Serling, The  ...