Dispatches from the Robo-Wars

Published: Aug. 11, 2017, 11:30 p.m.

b'Phil and Stephen discuss the good-new / bad-news of the robotics revolution.\\n\\nOur Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them\\n\\nHarris is a former product manager at Google who has gone viral repeatedly by critiquing the way that the big platforms\\u2014Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram\\u2014suck us into their products and take time that, in retrospect, we may wish we did not give.\\n\\nSilicon Valley luminaries are busily preparing for when robots take over\\n\\nAntonio is worried about where modern technology \\u2013 especially the twin forces of automation and artificial intelligence \\u2013 is taking us. He thinks it\\u2019s developing much faster than people outside Silicon Valley realize, and we\\u2019re on the cusp of another industrial revolution that will rip through the economy and destroy millions of jobs.\\n\\nGeek Out!\\n\\nThe New Bobiverse book is out\\n\\nStephen saw Valerian and thinks its better than the critics are letting on.\\n\\nWT 335-644\\n\\nPhoto by Adrien Milcent on Unsplash'