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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Step by step

Foxconn have been working on this for some time. From the Independent we hear

60,000 workers at Apple supplier Foxconn have been replaced with robots, according to reports.

The figure comes from a local government official, who said employee numbers at one of Foxconn's factories in Kunshan, near Shanghai, have been drastically slashed in recent months.


Perhaps the Chinese government has an expanding role for all those dumped workers.

The Chinese government plants 488 million fake comments every year

Harvard Study based on leaked email archives reveals massive astroturfing operation

5 comments:

Demetrius said...

See you in Shanghai Lil's?

Scrobs. said...

I can't read Chinese, so that's a busted flush as far as I'm, concerned.

Mind you, I don't listen much to the BBC so what's different?

Sam Vega said...

But then all those astroturfers will be made redundant by Google's Mills & Boone-fed prose robot.

"Darling", he sighed, his breath hot on her neck, "Only a lickspittle running dog in the pay of the imperialist CIA would say that we are heading for stagflation..."

James Higham said...

They are legion.

A K Haart said...

Demetrius - she has a chunk of our money so I hope she's sound.

Scrobs - Google will translate Chinese for you, but probably not the BBC dialect.

Sam - I think Cameron is one of those prose robots.

James - and they are evolving.