Tag: working for robots

  • self checkouts

    self checkouts

    Self checkouts were one of those waves of technology-meets-casual labour problems that we doom-and-gloomed as foretelling the end of retail workers. read more

  • digital boss, part three

    digital boss, part three

    I miss the opportunity to look behind the curtain of this black box of AI. read more

  • digital boss, part two

    digital boss, part two

    It’s a terrible bargain, contrived by centuries of habit. And for all those centuries the bargain has arguably shifted ever more in favour of the employers. read more

  • digital boss, part one

    digital boss, part one

    I used to manage people and I stopped because occasionally shutting off my humanity to do what needed to get done damn near broke me. read more