When looking at how automation, robotics and AI will change the future of how people work and what jobs they will have there seems to be two main camps of thought: Capitalistic/Free Market view that looking back at the history of economic transitions have shown that each time we faced productivity improvements there were always…

Over the last couple of months I’ve been giving some thought to how the manufacturing business works, specifically in Canada. It’s been driven partly from things that I’ve been trying to buy, partly from wanting to try my hand at small scale production of something in the garage and also because it’s such an important…

Our ability to be productive is the most critical metric that determines quality of life. It’s a fundamental measurement of how the economy is doing, identifys where we are stagnating, and shows where the biggest gains are. There are many factors that go into improving productivity – capital investment in tooling, factories and better software,…