Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job. “Hello, Operator!,” although controlled by a ...

It's rare you get such an excellent combination of simple gameplay and an interesting theme as Ringdown: Switchboard Puzzler.

Over the course of the past 50 years or more, technology has moved at such a pace that jobs people used to do have been replaced by computers or other forms of automation. Jobs such as bowling alley ...

The rise of generative AI — and ChatGPT in particular — has raised a lot of alarm bells in some industries worried that the technology could make many humans’ jobs obsolete. And those concerns are ...