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In 2010, Henry Evans saw a robot on TV. It was a PR2, from the robotics company Willow Garage, and Georgia Tech robotics professor Charlie Kemp was demonstrating how the PR2 was able to locate a person and bring them a bottle of medicine. For most of the people watching that day, the PR2 was little more than a novelty. But for Evans, the robot had the potential to be life changing. “I imagined PR2 as my body surrogate,” Evans says. “I imagined using it as a way to once again m

Crime novelist has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn’t write herselfIt is a gripping detective story typical of the queen of Nordic noir, leaving fans pondering the ethics of relationships and the dirty secrets of people with power and influence.But for once, bestselling crime novelist Camilla Läckberg is not the author of this particular literary whodunnit, but its protagonist. Continue reading...

Lessons from history show that technological change doesn’t affect employment in the way some people believeWe need to talk about economic change – how fast it’s happening and what it looks like when it does. Everyone says technology means economic change is accelerating, and that when the robots arrive the result is current, largely older, workers losing their jobs.That kind of change can happen, especially if driven by more than technology. The speed, and geographical concent