More and more we read that robots replace factory workers and technology increases production. In a similar way, machinery transformed local industry during Aspen’s mining years. The introduction of ...

Steam drills - driverless cars - and much more to come, I hope and fear. (Law professors?) John Henry may lay down 15 feet to the steam drill's nine. But even if he doesn't drive so hard that he ...

One firm pioneered the wheezy drills that broke into the 20th century and the modern age. There is a famous tale in American folklore about a chap named ‘John Henry’. This apocryphal ...