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Big Picture Science

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4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2014

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hi ho, hi ho … it’s out with work we go! As you relax this holiday weekend, step into our labor-atory and imagine a world with no work allowed. Soft robots help us with tasks at home and at the office, while driverless cars allow us to catch ZZZZs in the front seat. Plus, the Internet of Everything interconnects all your devices, from your toaster to your roaster to … you. So there’s no need to ever get off the couch. But is a machine-ruled world a true utopia? And, the invention that got us into our 24/7 rat race: Edison’s electric light. Guests: Barry Trimmer – Professor of biology, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering at Tufts University, and editor-in-chief, Soft Robotics Red Whittaker – Roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University Ernest Freeberg – Historian, University of Tennessee, and author of The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Rob Chandhok – Computer scientist, president of Qualcomm Interactive Platforms Andre Bormanis – Television writer, producer, screenwriter and science advisor to Star Trek and Cosmos Descripción en español First released August 26, 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.6	podcasts. In 1842 I left the old world for the new bats, the lock that brought
1:02.1	me through to work upon the railway.
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1:10.0	Ane of the bay o'er and...
1:12.0	One hundred years ago most jobs involved physical work.
1:15.0	Whether it was heavy labor out on the railroad or manual labor in a factory,
1:22.0	we worked with our bodies.
1:23.6	Today for most people, physical labor has been replaced by mental labor.
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