Interview with Mark Mills on ‘Work in the Age of Robots’
REAL CLEAR BOOKS …. >> RealClearBooks: Let’s start with your book title. I always thought the advent of robots would mean we wouldn’t have to work anymore.
On Technology: This Time It’s Not Different
REAL CLEAR BOOKS …. >> One of humanity’s oldest pursuits is inventing machines that reduce the labor-hours needed to perform tasks. History offers hundreds of examples, each of which seemed amazing at the time.
Health Care (Desperately) Needs More Robots
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY …. >> Economists are notoriously lousy at predicting technology or understanding the laws of nature. But the closest economists get to having a law of physics is in the truism that increasing productivity is the primary force driving economic growth.
Robots to the Rescue—of Manufacturing
CITY JOURNAL .… >> It’s mostly accepted wisdom in policy circles: automation means that manufacturing employment is destined to follow the historical example of farm work, becoming a negligible share of the U.S. workforce. Even those who embrace the Trump administration’s efforts to “onshore” factories say that we should be “honest about the facts,” especially to…
The Policymaker’s Dilemma: Believe Economists or Innovators?
REAL CLEAR POLICY …. >> The economy is picking up a little steam. But it’s still a far cry from the go-go growth fondly remembered from the Reagan and Clinton eras. And when it comes to forging policies intended to accelerate the economy, we have a clear division between two camps. On one side are…
Can’t See For Miles: The perils of technology forecasting, particularly regarding energy
CITY JOURNAL …. >> Railroads, the automobile and aircraft, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, electricity, telephone, radio and television, the Internet: each brought about deep transformations, the kinds that define historical epochs. Yet no one predicted any of them. And once each was underway, forecasters then also failed to predict the nature and scale of the impact.