March 8, 2019
5:42 p.m.
"To understand the electronics industry is simple: every time someone says ‘robot,’ simply picture a woman of color (…) One in five electronics companies used no automation at all, and the rest used very little. Seagate’s disk drives were assembled by women in Singapore. Hewlett-Packard hired so many temporary workers that it started its own temp agency. The most important technology in the electronics industry, as Hyman points out, was the fingernail." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/are-robots-competing-for-your-... ht Antonio Casilli (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))