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A Versatile Robotic Worker
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration
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NASA was able to combine centralized planning and control with decentralized project execution.
Mariana Mazzucato • Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Not only can you claim to have achieved a robot that walks with a required degree of skill, you can claim to have implemented evolution on a computer.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Jerry Kaplan • Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
The new hires took advantage of Xerox’s abundant resources and loose oversight to creatively interpret Goldman’s definition of “data processing technology,” pursuing projects inspired by Doug Engelbart’s ideas about augmented intelligence and by hacker culture more generally. Engelbart’s SRI operation had drifted after the great demo—investors coul
... See moreMargaret O'Mara • The Code
Delta hopes to offer a one-armed assembly robot for about $10,000—less than half the cost of Rethink’s Baxter.