Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Even as Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone manufacturer, continues to build new plants and hire thousands of additional workers to make smartphones, it plans to install more than a million robots within a few years to supplement its work force in China.
Foxconn has not disclosed how many workers will be displaced or when. But its chairman, Terry Gou, has publicly endorsed a growing use of robots. Speaking of his more than one million employees worldwide, he said in January, according to the official Xinhua news agency: “As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.”
Comments
Just in case you didn't seethe news about the riot at a Foxconn plant, it really puts that quote you highlighted in a strange context. I've seen more development on the story since, but this is the New York Times from yesterday:
by artappraiser on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 11:43pm
Thanks. From what I am reading, Foxconn sounds like hell.
BTW, that quote is actually from New Wave of Deft Robots Is Changing Global Industry - NYTimes.com, August 18, 2012 but I linked to where I discovered it because the link there leads through to other stories as well.
by EmmaZahn on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 11:59pm