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Catherine Bischofberger is a writer and technical communications officer at the IEC. Previously she worked as a journalist and editor on the IBC daily and wrote for many B to B publications, in a number of technology fields (IoT, cloud storage, technology for sports broadcasting, etc.) Before coming to Switzerland and joining the IEC, she worked for 15 years in Paris for The Film Français, a French B to B film industry publication. Prior to that she edited a number of broadcast technology magazines in London. [email protected]

Automatizing the power grid

Posted: Tue, January 29, 2019 - 3:16:36

In this day and age, relations between humans and machines have become rather fraught. A growing number of anxieties crystallize around the use of robots and automation in various industries, not to mention our homes. Things were quite different in the late 19th century, when the introduction of the first machines were expected to relieve people from toiling away for…