In contrast to the well-established mAb sector, the poor automation, labor-intensive, and more open nature of cell therapy manufacture makes it more prone to operator-mediated variability (Lopez et al., 2010), and contamination risks.
We're seeing automation of labor across every industry, including manufacturing, wealth management and medicine.
Companies like Grace are turning to automation because labor can add up to a third of the cost of raising pearls and then matching by hand literally tons of pearls by size, color, shape and blemishes.
And its software development work, bolstered by dozens of acquisitions in the last few years, is more and more being done with an eye for use in its services business — to substitute software automation for labor.
We need more automation of labor, not less.
Yet, few regions in recent times have supposedly done more to "destroy" quality working conditions than the Valley, from the entire creation of the precarious 1099 economy to automation of labor itself.
The major advantages of these systems are their short assay time, i.e., minutes, their high degree of automation reducing labor time, the option of simultaneous detection of several analytes (in most machines), and the label-free detection.
Alas, though, every boss now also has cheaper, easier, faster access to more above-average software, automation, robotics, cheap labor and cheap genius than ever before.
Thanks to the merger of, and advances in, globalization and the information technology revolution, every boss now has cheaper, easier access to more above-average software, automation, robotics, cheap labor and cheap genius than ever before.
Almost 64 years after Wiener wrote it, his essay is still remarkably topical, raising questions about the impact of smart machines on society and of automation on human labor.
