
(That's one of the bags above in the photo.) The Kickstarter went live this week and is almost halfway to its $40,000 goal.įrom a Bolt Threads FAQ: We use corn stalks and supplemental nutrients to feed and grow our mycelium. That company - Bolt Threads - now has a Kickstarter for the first consumer product (tote bags) made with the not-leather, which it's calling Mylo. This is wild: Ecovative has partnered with a company in California to use its mushroom root tech to make a material that looks remarkably like leather. This struck us as a key clip from Shultz's post (emphasis added): (That image above is a static version of the graphic.) At the top of the list are office support, retail salespeople and cashiers, and food service - potentially 2.5 million jobs lost or changed. Rockefeller has put together an interactive graphic that highlights the number of jobs - by industry and type - that could be affected around the state. We combined these data with the occupational makeup of the New York State workforce in 2017 and found that 53 percent of jobs in New York could be automated with technology available today or anticipated in the near future, while 56 percent of workers across the US face threats from automation.

A high probability of computerization suggests technologies could eliminate or dramatically change the tasks associated with the job in the next twenty years. A recent paper by Frey and Osbourne estimated the probability of computerization of more than 700 jobs in the near future based on the tasks associated with the job and currently available technologies. From a post by Rockefeller's Laura Shultz: The calculation is based on individual occupations.

That's from an ongoing look at the issue by the Rockefeller Institute of Government here in Albany. Roughly half of the jobs in New York State could be automated or otherwise significantly changed by artificial intelligence over the next 20 years.
