Fracking Town

An Artist's Off-the-Wall Vision for Creating Fracking Towns

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Robot Workers

General

CGP Grey Explores the Rise of Robotic Workers and What That Means for Humans
Future of AI Robotics and Jobs
Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and Other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy

Emergency Services

Firefighting Robot
U.S. Navy unveils robotic firefighter
This Incredible Hospital Robot Is Saving Lives. Also, I Hate It
Health care: Hospitals cut costs with 'creepy' robots

Security

• Microsoft Built a Friggin’ DALEK

Office Robots

• SORA, The Receptionist Robot
• SORA the Secretary is a Robot For Your Office
• Swiss startup that makes lab assistant robots opens Boston office
• Freakishly realistic telemarketing robots are denying they're robots
• Robot Telemarketer Samantha West Isn't a Robot
• Robot-denying telemarketing robot may not actually be a robot

"But the peculiar thing about Samantha West isn’t just that she is automated. It’s that she’s so smartly automated that she’s trained to respond to queries about whether or not she is a robot by telling you she’s a human. I asked Haerich if there is a regulation against robots lying to you.

“I don’t…know…that…,” she said. “That’s one I’ve never been asked before. I’ve never been asked that question. Ever.”

Recording of Samantha West:

Home Robots

• Invasion of the domestic robots

“We have 12 robots in our house,” said Boisdron. “We have a vacuum cleaner robot, we have a floor cleaner robot that washes the floor with vinegar, we have a litter robot for the cat, we have a robot to wash the windows, and we have a robot to cut the grass."

• Dyson's first robot vacuum promises more suction than the competition
• Dyson Releases the Eye, a Robot Vacuum With a 360-Degree Camera | WIRED

Service Industry Robot

• Lowe’s debuts customer service robots in store
• Now on Aisle 3 at Lowe's: Customer Service Robots | NewsFactor Business Report
• A Drug-Dealing Robot That Upends the Pharmacy Model | Design | WIRED
• Meet the Company Designing Robot Bellhops for Hotels | Design | WIRED
• Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry
• Industrial cake-decorating robot
• Backed by Google Ventures, the First Robot Hotel Butler Just Reported for Duty
• Robot Butler Rolls Into California Hotel | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
• Don’t be alarmed by that robot delivering a toothbrush to your hotel room - The Washington Post
• Robot Bartender to Set Sail On Cutting-Edge Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship | Singularity HUB
• BoozeBot, A Cocktail-Making Robot That Can Mix Over 4,500 Different Drinks
• BoozeBots - The ultimate automated home cocktail mixer. BoozeBots
• Will pole dancing robots put human strippers out of work?
• The Dancing Stripper Robots Of The Future Are Now Here | So Bad So Good
• You will be 'romancing' robots in 2025, claims study

Horatio Alger

Adrift in New York
Andy Grant's Pluck
Ben's Nugget
Ben, the Luggage Boy; Or, Among the Wharves
Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder
Brave and Bold
Cash Boy
Cast Upon the Breakers
Chester Rand
Cousin's Conspiracy
Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience
Erie Train Boy
Errand Boy; Or, How Phil Brent Won Success
Facing the World
Fame and Fortune
Five Hundred Dollars
Frank and Fearless
Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp
From Canal Boy to President
From Farm to Fortune
Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems
Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
Helping Himself; Or, Grant Thornton's Ambition
Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son

Construction of Disneyland

Thank you to Adrianne and Retronaut for this.

Source.
c/f Pictures of Disneyland in Opening Day, July 17, 1955
c/f Disneyland Construction Time Laspe - Main Street Camera 3

Loneliness (1928)

Ipod City, Shenzhen, Foxconn

Foxconn

• The haunting poetry of a Chinese factory worker who committed suicide - The Washington Post
• Million Robot Revolution Delayed—iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Hires More Humans 
• Google Partnering with Foxconn to Test Industrial Robots
• Foxconn’s Pivot to America: Reverse Outsourcing With Robots
• Journey Inside the Cavernous Interiors of these Mega-Factories
• Analyst Downgrades Apple Because It Treats Workers ‘Like Animals’
• 'Mass suicide' protest at Apple manufacturer Foxconn factory
• 1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?
• Apple's Foxconn PredicamentIn China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
• Terry Gou (Forbe's profile).
• A Chinese View of iPod City
• Foxconn orders massive nets to catch jumping factory workers
• Foxconn Promises 20% Wage Hike Following Suicides
• iPod City: Apple criticized for factory conditions
• Welcome to Ipod City
• The stark reality of iPod's Chinese factories

Shenzhen

• Wikipedia article
• Shenzhen Stock Exchange
• Shun Hing Square
• Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen
• SEG Plaza
• Pingan International Finance Centre

Brecht Poetry Online (in English Translation)

A Worker Reads History
Alabama Song
Contemplating Hell
Der Pflaumenbaum (The Plum Tree, translation)
Elogio al Aprendizaje
Fragen
From A German War Primer
Future Generations
How Fortunate the Man with None
I Never Loved You More
I Want To Go With The One I Love
Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt...
From A German War Primer
I want to go with the one I love...
I'm not saying anything against Alexander
Mack the Knife
My young son asks me...
Not What Was Meant
O Germany, Pale Mother!
On Reading a Recent Greek Poet
On the Critical Attitude
Parting
Pleasures (Translation with the original German)
Questions
Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Radio Poem
Send Me a Leaf
Solidarity Song
The Mask Of Evil
The Solution
The Tattered Cord (Der Abgerissen Strick, translation with original German)
To Be Read in the Morning and at Night
To Posterity
To read in the morning and at night...
To the Students of the Workers' and Peasants' Faculty
To Those Born After
United Front Song
What Has Happened?
Alabama Song
Contemplating Hell
From A German War Primer
How Fortunate The Man With None
I Never Loved You More
I want to go with the one I love...
Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt...
Kinderhymne (Children's Hymn)
Mack The Knife
My young son asks me...
Not What Was Meant
O Germany, Pale Mother!
On Reading A Recent Greek Poet
On The Critical Attitude
Parting
Questions From A Worker Who Reads
Radio Poem
Send Me A Leaf
Solidarity Song
The Mask Of Evil
The Solution
To Be Read In The Morning And At Night
To Posterity
To read in the morning and at night...
To The Students Of The Workers' And Peasants' Faculty
To Those Born After
United Front Song
What Has Happened?

Lorca - Ode to Walt Whitman

In full.

R.U.R. or Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Capek, in English Translation (1920)

In full.

Chapter 4 from Rabelais and his World: Banquet Imagery in Rabelais

Source.

On Google books, with a few pages (like two) annoyingly omitted.

Poems Ballads Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

The Absent-Minded Beggar Anchor Song "Angutivaun Taina" The Anvil Arithmetic On the Frontier An Astrologer's Song "Back to the Army Again" The Ballad of Boh Da Thone The Ballad of Bolivar The Ballad of the "Clampherdown" Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House A Ballad of Jakko Hill The Benefactors Belts The Betrothed Big Steamers Bill 'awkins "Birds of Prey March" The Birthright Blue Roses Bobs Boots The Bother The Boy Scouts' Patrol Song The Braggart Bridge-Guard in the Karroo A British-Roman Song The Broken Men Brookland Road Brown Bess Buddha at Kamakura The Burden The Burial Butterflies "By the Hoof of the Wild Goat" Cain and Abel The Captive Carmen Circulare A Carol Cells The Centaurs Certain Maxims of Hafiz The Changelings Chant-Pagan Chapter Headings A Charm Chartres Windows The Children The Children's Song A Child's Garden Chil's Song Cholera Camp Christmas in India "Cities and Thrones and Powers" "The City of Brass" The City of Sleep "Cleared" The Clerks and the Bells The Coastwise Lights A Code of Morals The Coiner Cold Iron Columns The Comforters The Consolations of Memory Contradictions The Conundrum of the Workshops A Counting-Out Song Covenant The Craftsman Cruisers Cuckoo Song The Cure Dane-Geld Danny Deever Darzee's Chaunt The Dawn Wind The Day's Work The Dead King A Death-Bed The Declaration of London Dedication Dedication from "Barrack-Room Ballads" A Dedication The Deep-Sea Cables Delilah A Departure The DerelictThe Destroyers Dinah in Heaven Dirge of Dead Sisters The Disciple Divided Destinies Doctors The Dove of Dacca The Dutch in the Medway The Dying Chauffeur The Dykes The 'eathen Eddi's Service Edgehill Fight The Egg-Shell En-Dor England's Answer The English Flag The English Way Et Dona Ferentes Evarra and His Gods The Expert The Explanation The Explorer The Fabulists The Fairies' Siege The Fall of Jock Gillespie "Farewell and adieu..." Fastness The Feet Of the Young Men The Female of the Species The Fires The First Chantey The Flight The Floods The Flowers "Follow Me 'ome" "For All We Have And Are" Ford O'Kabul River For to Admire The Four Angels Four-Feet The Four Points Fox-Hunting France Frankie's Trade The French Wars The Friends "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" The Galley-Slave Gallio's Song Gehazi General Joubert A General Summary Gentlement-Rankers Gertrude's Prayer Gethsemane Giffen's Debt The Gift of the Sea The Gipsy Trail Gipsy Vans The Glories The Glory of the Garden The Gods of the Copybook Headings The Grave of the Hundred Head Great-Heart The Greek National Anthem Gunga Din Half-Ballade of Waterval Harp Song of the Dane Women "Helen All Alone" Heriot's Ford The Heritage His Apologies The Holy War The Hour of the Angel The Houses Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack Hyaenas Hymn Before Action Hymn of the Triumphant Airman Hymn to Physical Pain The Idiot Boy If "I Keep Six Honest..." An Imperial Rescript In the Matter of One Compass In the Neolithic Age In Springtime The Instructor The Inventor The Irish Guards The Islanders The Jacket James I Janes Marriage The Jester Jubal and Tubal Cain The Juggler's Song The Jungle Books The Junk and the Dhow Justice The Justice's Tale Just So Stories Kim The King The King and the Sea The Kingdom The King's Job The King's Pilgrimage The King's Task Kitchener's School The Ladies Lady Geraldine's Hardship The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief The Land The Landau The Last Chantey The Last Department The Last Lap The Last Ode The Last of the Light Brigade

The Last Rhyme of True Thomas The Last Suttee "Late Came the God" The Law of the Jungle The Legend of Evil The Legend of the Foreign Office The Legend of Mirth A Legend of Truth L'envoi L'envoi L'envoi to "Life's Handicap" The Lesson Lichtenberg The Light That Failed The Liner She's a Lady Lollius London Stone The Long Trail The Looking-Glass Loot Lord Roberts The Lost Legion The Lovers' Litany The Love Song of Har Dyal The Lowestoft Boat Lukannon Macdonough's Song The Man Who Could Write Mandalay Many Inventions The Mare's Nest The Married Man The "Mary Gloster" "Mary, Pity Women!" Mary's Son The Masque of Plenty The Master-Cook McAndrew's Hymn Memories "The Men That Fought at Minden" The Merchantmen Merrow Down Mesopotamia Mine Sweepers M.I. The Miracles The Moon of Other Days The Moral Morning Song in the Jungle The Mother-Lodge Mother o' Mine The Mother's Son Mowgli's Song Mowgli's Song Against People Mulholland's Contract Municipal My Boy Jack My Father's Chair My Lady's Law "My New-Cut Ashlar" My Rival The Native Born A Nativity Natural Theology The Naulahka The Necessitarian Neighbours The New Nighthood Norman and Saxon The North Sea Patrol La Nuit Blanche The Nurses The Nursing Sister The Old Men The Old Issue Old Mother Laidinwool An Old Song The Oldest Song One Viceroy Resigns The Only Son Oonts The Open Door "Our Fathers Also" Our Fathers of Old Our Lady of the Sackcloth The Outlaws Outsong in the Jungle The Overland Mail A Pageant of Elizabeth Pagett, M.P. The Palace Pan in Vermont Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals The Parting of the Column The Peace of Dives The Penalty Pharaoh and the Sergeant Philadelphia A Pict Song A Pilgrim's Way The Pink Dominoes The Pirates In England The Playmate The Plea of the Simla Dancers Poceidon's Law "Poison of Asps" "Poor Honest Men" The Portent Poseidon's Law Possibilities The Post That Fitted Prelude A Preface The Press The Pro-Consuls The Prodigal SonThe Power of the Dog The Prairie The Prayer The Prayer of Miriam Cohen The Progress of the Spark Prophets at Home Public Waste Puck's Song The Puzzler The Queen's Men The Question The Rabbi's Song Rahere Rebirth The Recall A Recantation Recessional Rector's Memory The Reeds of Runnymede The Reformers The Return The Return of the Children The Rhyme of the Three Captains The Rhyme of the Three Sealers "Rimini" Rimmon A Ripple Song The Rivers Tale Road-Song of the Bandar-Log The Roman Centurion's Song Romulus and Remus Route Marchin' The Rowers The Runes on the Weland's Sword The Run of Downs The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin Russia to the Pacifists The Sacrifice of Er-Heb Sappers The Scholars A School Song Screw-Guns The Sea And the Hills Seal Lullaby The Sea-Wife The Second Voyage The Secret of the Machinery Sepulchral The Sergeant's Weddin' A Servant When He Reigneth Sestina of the Tramp-Royal Settler Seven Watchmen Shillin' a Day Sir Richard's Song A Smuggler's Song "Snarleyow" "Soldier an' Sailor Too" Soldier, Soldier The Song at Cock-Crow A Song in the Desert A Song in Storm The Song of the Bunjo A Song of Bananas The Song of the Cities The Song of the Dead Song of Diego Valdez The Song of the Dynamo The Song of the English Song of the Fifth River A Song of French Roads Song of the Galley-Slaves A Song of Kabir The Song of the Little Hunter Song of the Men's Side The Song of the Old Guard Song of the Red War-Boat The Song of Seven Cities Song of Seventy Horses The Song of the Sons A Song of Travel A Song of the White Men Song of the Wise Children The Song of the Women The Songs of the Lathes A Song to Mithras The Sons of Martha South Africa The Spies' March Stellenbosch A St. Helen Lullaby The Storm Cone The Story of Ung The Story of Uriah The Stranger Study of Elevation, In Indian Ink "Such as in Ships" Supplication of the Black Aberdeen The Supports The Survival Sussex A Tale of Two Cities Tarrant Moss Things and the Man Thorkild's Song The Thousandth Man The Three-Decker A Three-Part Song The Threshold "Tin Fish" To the City of Bombay To the Companions "Together" To James Whitcomb Riley To a Lady, Persuading Her to a Car To Motorists To T. A. The Totem To Thomas Atkins To the True Romance To the Unknown Goddess To Wolcott Balestier Tomlinson Tommy The Tour "The Trade" A Translation A Tree Song Troopin' The Truce of the Bear A Truthful Song Two Kopjes Two Months The Two-Sided Man Two Races Ubique Ulster The Undertaker's Horse Untimely The Vampire "Very Many People" The Verdicts The Veterans The Vineyard The Virginity The Voortrekker The Wage-Slaves The Waster The Way Through the Woods We and They The Wet Litany What Happened What the People Said When Earth's Last Pictures Is Painted "When the Great Ark" "When the Jorney Was Intented To the City" "When 'Omer Smote..." The Widower White Horses The White Man's Burden The Widow's Party The Widow at Windsor Wilful Missing The Winners The Wishing-Caps With Drake in the Tropics With Scindia to Delphi "You Must n't Swim..." The Young British Soldier The Young Queen Zion