New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, John Luther Adams
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Why the new machine age promised by artificial intelligence and digitital technology is a myth
SHAPING THINGS TO COME: A 3-D printer
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Banksy’s identity may have been published – but was the investigation in the public interest, asks PETER BENGTSEN
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
“THE robots are coming” is the clarion call from organisations such as the European Central Bank and the World Trade Organisation, as well as in business media generally.
But it also being heeded in the university sector, chiefly in its business schools where the managerial class is incubated.
Hope and fear divide responses to the vista of robots marching over the horizon.
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