Paul Brubacher
In Memoriam
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- outside of Toronto, Ont
This weekend I heard an interesting talk on disruptive technology. It was all about artificial intelligence and automation with an emphasis on self-driving cars to reduce road congestion.
Automation is becoming cheaper, look at the CNC machines and 3D printers. It now costs $3.10 per hour to operate a robot while a worker in China earns $3.00 an hour. So it looks as if most manufacturing will become automated.
Apparently a company would make more money selling plans for $5.00 to print your own Lincoln Logs than to manufacture the logs and sell them to a retailer.
Slightly over 50% of cars entering the downtown core are for government and banking. So time shifting and working from home would be good methods of reducing traffic congestion.
About the banking, there has been an estimate that 2 million jobs will be lost in North America if or when digital currency becomes predominant.
He said that his father’s new car has automated stopping. His father’s comment was that he was only 77 years old and could still drive. Once while driving he spilled coffee in his lap and the car stop automatically. He hadn’t notice that the traffic had stopped.
The self driving cars can be safer because they have thousands of inputs. The one drawback is that they will not break any rules of the road, so if a child darts in front of the car, it will not swerve across a double yellow line.
Automation is becoming cheaper, look at the CNC machines and 3D printers. It now costs $3.10 per hour to operate a robot while a worker in China earns $3.00 an hour. So it looks as if most manufacturing will become automated.
Apparently a company would make more money selling plans for $5.00 to print your own Lincoln Logs than to manufacture the logs and sell them to a retailer.
Slightly over 50% of cars entering the downtown core are for government and banking. So time shifting and working from home would be good methods of reducing traffic congestion.
About the banking, there has been an estimate that 2 million jobs will be lost in North America if or when digital currency becomes predominant.
He said that his father’s new car has automated stopping. His father’s comment was that he was only 77 years old and could still drive. Once while driving he spilled coffee in his lap and the car stop automatically. He hadn’t notice that the traffic had stopped.
The self driving cars can be safer because they have thousands of inputs. The one drawback is that they will not break any rules of the road, so if a child darts in front of the car, it will not swerve across a double yellow line.