Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] There was a good article in a recent Trains magazine about the legend of John Henry. The story is a perfect man vs machine battle (low-tech vs hi-tech). The legend goes that a powerful worker named John Henry died after successfully outperforming a steam drill during the [...]
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Update 07/29/2009: Thank you Jon for submitting the following story with the ominous subject “It begins.” Sweden’s Local News in English reports: A Swedish company has been fined 25,000 kronor ($3,000) after a malfunctioning robot attacked and almost killed one of its workers at a factory north of Stockholm… “I’ve never heard of a robot [...]
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