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The Digital age began with the invention of the telegraph in 1838. The telegraph shifted the media ecology back towards sound and touch (the two senses most closely related to the telegraph). McLuhan, who was a really huge proponent of electronic know-how, believed this represented a retribalizing the human race, creating the worldwide village (Griffin, 2012).

But, again to the larger story: Will advanced AI and robots make the world a greater place or not? Basically everybody agrees that robotics and AI are going to displace numerous jobs over the subsequent few years as the general-purpose robotic comes of age. Even though these early basic-purpose bots (reminiscent of Baxter within the video beneath) won’t be as fast …