Only six more months to go and society will have been transformed from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Society. Here’s the Top 5 stories for June 2019.
#5 Humans Replace Computers
It became clear this month that most of the computers-replace-humans predictions are premature promises.
Leading the premature promises: A story reporting that Tesla’s Elon Musk is the only car guy left still saying driverless cars are coming soon. All the other auto makers are saying technology will help, but not replace drivers anytime soon. And we could keep going. Your job? Safe, and if not, tons of other jobs waiting. Your personal robot? Not this month.
My NYTimes address change? After 45 minutes with the phone, text and online computers, it took 2 real humans to make a simple address change. Photo: Paradise Point Resort, virtually an island on Mission Bay, San Diego, site of the big LERN Annual Conference this year Nov. 19-22, 2019.