Tag: Industrial Revolution
Is AI sparking a cognitive revolution that will lead to mediocrity...
Wolfgang Messner, University of South Carolina
Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain.
What’s a Luddite? An expert on technology and society explains
Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University
The term “Luddite” emerged in early 1800s England. At the time there was a...
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today’s idea of a nature-positive...
Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University
Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma...
Abolishing child labor took the specter of ‘white slavery’ and the...
Betsy Wood, Hudson County Community College
Today, U.S. laws and regulations bar kids under the age of 14 from working in most industries. Children under...
Retailers like Walmart are embracing robots – here’s how workers can...
Beth Humberd, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Walmart recently said it plans to deploy robots to scan shelves,...
A brief history of the s’more, America’s favorite campfire snack
Jeffrey Miller, Colorado State University
This summer, 45 million pounds of marshmallows will be toasted over a fire in America. Many will be used as...
What the Industrial Revolution really tells us about the future of...
Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University
As automation and artificial intelligence technologies improve, many people worry about the future of work. If millions of human workers...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
