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The (Surprising) Popularity Of Robots Among Older People

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Friedrich Schiller University, in Germany, suggests not a great deal. The researchers conducted a number of experiments, primarily whereby videos were shown to participants, half of whom were around 70 years of age, and another half around 20. Achieving acceptance.

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How Our Economy Was Overrun by Monsters and What to Do About It

Harvard Business Review

If you ask me, let alone those participating in the wave of dissatisfaction and dissent rippling across the globe from Cairo, to Tunis, to Madrid, to Athens: it's a heartless, cruel divide that's the accelerant for revolution, whether social, cultural, economic, or political.