Invisible Robots Are Everywhere

Joe Posner: “A month ago Marketplace told me they’re doing a weeklong special called “Robots Ate My Job” this week and asked if I could make videos to go with it. Where to start? “Even though we don’t see them with anthropomorphic features and two arms and legs walking down the streets, there are robots all around you,” say Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAffee, authors of “Race Against the Machine.” Here is one of the two short films we made for them, about the hard work, now robotic, that invisibly surrounds us. It’s called “Robota” rather than “Robots” for a particular reason … (hint) — Enjoy!”

Here’s the other.

via BoingBoing.

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