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    How's the Day Treating You? Your Teller Wants to Know

    MARCH 28, 2011 6:25PM

    By Ann Bancroft


    Topics: customer service, banks, automation, humor, business

    • 26 Ratings
    • 1957 Views
    • 127 Comments
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    Humanity in Jeopardy!

    FEBRUARY 21, 2011 4:22AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: jobless recovery, musical chairs, unemployment, employment, jobs, economic singularity, technical singularity, singularity, automation, social injustice, injustice, social justice, justice, ethics, morality, adam smith, unseen hand, invisible hand, politics, jeopardy!, philosophy, technology

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    • 4 Ratings
    • 1624 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Automated music is here; will musicians become obsolete?

    MARCH 29, 2009 9:25PM

    By ffff ffff


    Topics: music, automation, breakcore, technology

    • 0 Ratings
    • 1486 Views
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    List Building Automation: Stating Facts and Dispelling Myths

    NOVEMBER 18, 2010 10:14PM

    By List Building Automation


    Topics: list, building, subscribers, automation

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1147 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    When Robots Make American Work Ethic Obsolete

    JUNE 3, 2012 2:14PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, capitalism, supply-side capitalism, foxwoods casino, automation, robots, work ethic, moral values, religion, slot machines, downsizing, unemployment, free market, keynesian economics, great depression, great recession, stimulus spending, wall street journal, austerity, paul krugman, housing bubble, dot.com bubble, weapons of mass destruction, paradox of development, safety net, farming, creative destruction, entrepreneurialism, leisure class, monied interests, landed elite, john adams, labor market, hysteresis, economic recovery, business cycle, structural economic change

    • 15 Ratings
    • 1043 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Are We Looking In The Wrong Direction?

    JANUARY 24, 2012 12:40PM

    By skypixie0


    Topics: automation, off-shoring, jobs

    • 2 Ratings
    • 630 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Hell is Renewing a Driver's License

    NOVEMBER 15, 2009 1:12PM

    By cyclopic


    Topics: drivers' licenses, vision test, peripheral vision, automation, humor, satire, hyperbole, exaggeration, bureaucracy, comedy, technology

    • 2 Ratings
    • 520 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Cultural Trend Update (Bite-Sized Edition)

    APRIL 11, 2012 2:30PM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: video, television, technology, electronic relationships, sports, economy, comedy, business, satire, humor, brooklyn + hottest borough, brooklyn + coolest borough, danagram, daniel rigney, athletics vs. academics, alec + corporate sponsors, plutocracy, automation, electron streams + disks, news update, cultural trend update, politisphere, tracking cultural trends, trending topics, bite-sized edition, facebook + textbook, naming facebook, bite-size, bite-sized

    • 4 Ratings
    • 354 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Robot Fires Human

    MAY 27, 2011 10:58AM

    By Con Chapman


    Topics: automation, robots, satire, comedy, spoof, humor

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