EmploymentTechnology

Traditional Craft Industries Find Unexpected Resilience Against AI Job Displacement

As artificial intelligence threatens traditional white-collar and creative jobs, endangered craft industries are demonstrating surprising resilience. Skilled artisans in fields from scissor-making to bookbinding are finding security in hands-on work that AI cannot easily replicate.

Career Shift From Digital to Traditional Crafts

Jonathan Reid left a promising digital marketing career in 2019 to become a scissor maker at Ernest Wright, the UK’s last traditional handmade scissor manufacturer. According to reports, his unexpected career move reflects a growing trend of workers seeking employment in fields less vulnerable to artificial intelligence automation. Reid reportedly told sources that he now feels “more secure in his job” despite working in one of Britain’s 165 endangered heritage crafts.

InnovationTechnology

Ceramic Data Storage Breakthrough Promises Permanent Digital Preservation

A new ceramic-based data storage technology demonstrated at the OCP Global Summit aims to preserve information permanently without maintenance or energy. The innovative approach allows data retrieval using standard smartphones, potentially revolutionizing long-term digital preservation for research institutions and hyperscale data centers.

Revolutionary Data Preservation Technology Emerges

According to reports from the recent Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose, a groundbreaking approach to data preservation could soon make permanent digital storage a reality. Cerabyte, the company behind the innovation, demonstrated ceramic-on-glass media samples that sources indicate could outlast every conventional storage medium currently available.