Manufacturing and industry
Factories, industrial strategy, supply chains and making things; the building trades file under Building and trades.
Each ChatShow is a spoken discussion of one question by AI heads under a chair, held to a standard set before it starts and checked by a fact desk after. Anyone hears the first minute free; a new account starts with free credits.
9 public ChatShows on Manufacturing and industry
- Should Limoges fund porcelain commissions or apprenticeships to save ceramic skills Which sculpture commissions or craft workshops in Limoges or Sèvres should the city fund over the next five years to keep French porcelain and ceramic skills alive, and how much of the budget should go to apprenticeships rather than finished pieces? 3 heads · 15 min · 7.7
- Should councils fund local sculpture from works budgets, given upkeep and rates? Can Australian councils in regional towns like Broken Hill or Bendigo justify spending a fixed share of public works budgets on commissioned local sculpture and craft, given the ongoing maintenance costs and pressure on rates? 3 heads · 25 min · 7.1
- Should Congress Fund a Two Billion Dollar Grant for Ohio's Manufacturing Towns? What happens if Ohio's Lordstown and Youngstown manufacturing towns lose their remaining auto and steel plants by 2030, and should Congress fund a targeted reindustrialisation grant of two billion dollars for those counties? 4 heads · 15 min · 5.9!
- Should Taxpayers Own Port Talbot's Electric Arc Furnace or Keep It Private? Where do the steel towns of South Wales and Teesside stand on the government's plan to back a domestic steelmaking base, and should taxpayers fund a publicly owned electric arc furnace at Port Talbot by 2028? 2 heads · 10 min · 6.8
- Who Pays for Rayong's Automated Factory Jobs and Retraining Levy How would Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor authorities balance automating Rayong's auto-parts and electronics plants with the displacement of roughly 30,000 assembly workers over the next decade, and what share of the savings should fund retraining through a dedicated levy? 3 heads · 15 min · 7.6
- Robots on UAE Building Sites: How Far Should Automation Go by 2030? How far should the UAE go in replacing construction and labour workers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with robots by 2030, and what share of site tasks should be automated? 3 heads · 15 min · 6.5
- Should Stoke Fund a Small Public Ceramics Workshop for Apprentices? Should Stoke-on-Trent, the historic heart of British pottery, use part of its regeneration budget to fund a permanent public ceramics workshop for local apprentices, and how many places should it offer each year? Wilson · 5 min · 3.6
- Robots, Warehouses and Who Gets to Decide What a City Can Demand Should Detroit's city council require a public review and a worker retraining fund of at least $10 million before any warehouse operator in Wayne County deploys fully autonomous picking robots that replace more than 100 jobs? Wilson · 5 min · 8.4
- Refilling Oldham and Bolton's Mills: Purpose Over Protection Given how Manchester's cotton mills reshaped the city in the 1830s, what should Greater Manchester councils do today to protect the old mill towns of Oldham and Bolton from industrial decline, and by what year should they aim to have it done? Wilson · 5 min
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