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Land of the Giants

Why the Robot Revolution is Our Fault

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Technology, Business

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In recent years Amazon has quietly become one of the leaders in automation, reshaping its workforce of nearly 600,000 workers, and the way humans work with robots. We fear robots taking over the world, but do we understand just how we as consumers are making that future happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this podcast comes from Slack.

0:03.0

You have to get your work done.

0:05.0

But what if you and your team could do it better?

0:08.0

Slack is a productivity platform that connects all your team members together instantly.

0:12.0

It's built to help your team with a host of features, like huddles for quick check-ins,

0:16.0

and clips for recording and sharing video.

0:19.0

Slack also makes it easy to search and find the right information you need.

0:23.0

You can even integrate the apps you use in your normal workflow,

0:26.0

like your calendar or product management tools.

0:28.0

So you stay focused on the work that matters and get more done.

0:31.0

Learn more at slack.com slash productivity.

0:36.0

Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.

0:39.0

How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa,

0:44.0

earned a brief second life and then was buried for good.

0:49.0

Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.

0:58.0

So think of a very, very large fair space,

1:07.0

like multiple halls, big high ceilings, we have spaces.

1:12.0

Imagine your 10 out of like 5,000 people all arriving with like electronics,

1:18.0

kits, robotic systems, and a madness of random robotic construction starts.

1:25.0

This is Yuxi Leitner. He's telling us about a huge robotics competition.

1:30.0

It happened in 2017 in Japan. It's called Robocup,

1:35.0

and Leitner's team was there to compete in something special,

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