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Thinking machines: the skilled jobs that could be taken over by robots

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/12/thinking-machines-skilled-job-robots-steal

• The fear that robots will destroy jobs and leave a great mass of people languishing in unemployment is almost as old as automation itself. And yet, from the Luddites onwards, the fears have been eventually proved wrong, and the economy has ended up stronger than before
• Analysts warn that automation is now affecting mental labour as well as physical. So what tasks are vulnerable?

This is article talking about how new developments such as robots are making our common jobs become extinct and how its going to be a huge problem for the economy. In my opinion i think that we're going to get to a stage where the majority of jobs will become extinct because of new developments.

Why the Daily Mirror pulled its exclusive story on The Voice

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2015/nov/11/why-the-daily-mirror-pulled-its-exclusive-story-on-the-voice

• In that posting I took the Mirror’s TV editor, Nicola Methven, to task for having written a story headlined “BBC axes The Voice in £55m row.” It was her paper’s splash in the first edition but vanished after that.

• She wrote at the time: “They have given up on screening a sixth run in 2017, leaving the door open for rivals ITV to snap up the show, which pulls in 8m viewers.”

This is an article talking about how the BBC