The robots are coming for your office, with NYT’s Kevin Roose

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Nilay Patel sits down with New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose to discuss the impact of automation on our future — specifically, robotic process automation, or RPA. Kevin's new book, Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation, is out and features a lengthy discussion of RPA, who's using it, who it will affect, and how to think about it as you design your career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	Hello and welcome to Decoder.
0:30.5	I'm Neil iPadell, Editor in Chief of the Verge.
0:32.8	And Decoder is my podcast about big ideas and other problems.
0:37.2	Today we're going to talk about one of the biggest ideas of all.
0:40.9	Automation in the workplace.
0:42.9	Specifically something called robotic process automation or RPA.
0:48.8	Now RPA isn't robots and factories, which is what you probably thought of when I said
0:54.0	automation.
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