Automation

could feed 19 people, and now a farmer can feed 155 people (Briefing on the Status). This is done with the help of more and more automation, but farming still requires extensive labor until most recently. Automated farming could impact agriculture by altering the way farms operate, affecting almost every aspect of dairy farming and grain farming. One effect of automation on dairy farms is increased milk production. Many…

my perception of “the future.” The older I got, the better I understood that, frankly, these ideas are unrealistic. Interestingly, Kevin Kelly, author of Why Robots Will---and Must---Take Our Jobs, suggests that automation will be a commonplace process within the century. By “automation,” Kelly is referring to the idea that humans will create intellectually capable machines, or machines that have the ability to learn, in order to complete detailed and complex, yet miniscule processes. The…

Did People Vote Legally in Nevada? With absolutely no evidence at all, Nevada’s Secretary of State has claimed that at least 3 people who are non-citizens have registered in the 2016 election.Barbara Cegavske has made a serious charge against those individuals since it is a Federal offense to vote and sign the voting registration. According to Amy Rose (Legal director for the ACL of Nevada) and Joe Gloria (Clark county’s registrar), they believed that it might’ve been a miscommunication since…

The technologies which enable this continuum and trend toward complete automation include adaptive cruise control (ACC), lane-minding technology, on-board navigation, crash warning systems, electronic stability control, and self-parking mechanisms, all of which are now commercially available. To better comprehend this continuum, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has delineated levels of automation as…

and coming up with new advancements to help the world in several aspects. One way technology is helping the world is in our jobs. Robots are replacing humans on assembly lines, in checkout services, and in our daily conversations over the phone. Automation is seen as a sign of progress when in reality it is only choking the people of well-paying jobs. Allowing a machine to take the place of a human also leaves more room for error, confusion, and risk of the machine malfunctioning. People get…

Compared to people, machines make fewer mistakes, save money and work faster with accuracy. “70 percent of today’s occupations will likewise be replaced by automation.” (Kelly 300). Kelly also states that, "This deep automation will touch all jobs, from manual labor to knowledge work" (Kelly 300), including less people being employed in banks, as well as pharmacies where robots now fill in prescriptions, and new software that replaces writers/reporters…

Segment [06:39-09:58] The inventors of Eniac, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert were reluctant to give up their dreams hence they started a computer company. Their first step was to find customers for their company. Eckert and Mauchly knew that their first customers were in the business community. The business community relied on punched card tabulating machines for record keeping and it was a tedious task. Eckert and Mauchly decided to sell their first computer to the U.S. census bureau. They…

The concept of sustainment is definitely not new in the grand scheme of things. Over the years, the ways we have carried out sustainment operations has advanced dramatically though. In olden days, the warfighting elements had to get their soldiers the products needed to participate in day-to-day operations or else a stop movement would ensue. The extreme inefficiency, according to todays’ standards, that they would have worked under was remarkably profound. Concepts such as airdrops to…

What is DevOps DevOps is a practise, based on agile and lean that unites the development and operation tasks of a software development. With DevOps most of the development and release processes are automated. Automation in-turn results in fast flow of planned work, with increased stable, reliable and secured product. Figure 1 - Diagram from https://en.wikipedia.org depicting DevOps as the intersection of development (software engineering), operations and quality…

The automation of certain tasks will lead to a decline in availability of jobs for humans. It will take over the jobs that thrive on routine and patterns. This is usually jobs occupied by individuals with lower levels of education. By removing these career opportunities…