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The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists and technologists over how quickly jobs will be lost. This year, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the case for a rapid transformation. "The pace and scale of this encroachment into human skills is relatively recent and has profound economic implications," they wrote in their book, "Race Against the Machine." In their minds, the advent of low-cost automation foretells changes on the scale of the revolution in agricultural technology over the last century, when farming employment in the United States fell from 40 percent of the work force to about 2 percent today. The analogy is not only to the industrialization of agriculture but also to the electrification of manufacturing in the past century, Mr. McAfee argues.

Agrométéo Québec est une initiative conjointe entre le ministère du Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs du Québec (MDDEP), le ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec (MRNF) ainsi que Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada (AAC). Agrométéo Québec a comme objectif la diffusion de données et de divers produits agrométéorologiques par l'entremise du site Internet www.agrometeo.org1. Ce site est alimenté sur une base journalière par un réseau de plus de 250 stations climatologiques réparties à travers toutes les régions agricoles du Québec.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services-from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

"B.I. has come to agribusiness, with farmers and cattle ranchers using many of the same tools found in numerous corporate cubicles. Thanks to everything from sophisticated tractor instruments to automated milking machines, farmers can collect all sorts of operational data in order to improve efficiency and keep production levels high. Here are just a few examples of how B.I. is being used in more rural areas."

"Canal-vache est une plateforme sécurisée de co-surveillance vidéo de vos troupeaux. Elle vous permet de trouver un homologue équipé d'un système de vidéo-surveillance qui peut surveiller votre troupeau à distance lorsque vous êtes dans l'incapacité de le faire. En échange vous trouvez une plage horaire où vous êtes disponible pour aider l'éleveur qui a gardé vos bêtes. "