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Humans Need Not Apply
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| Aug 13, 2014
| CGP Grey
Posted on 09/08/2014 8:47:42 AM PDT by Borges
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Education
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Well worth watching all the way through. The automated car thread got me thinking about this. How accurate are his predictions?
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:47:42 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: discostu
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:48:00 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
$15/hr to sling fast food?
Maybe in Obamaland, not in the real world of automation.
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:50:09 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Borges
I like how that narration is done by a computer, no human required.
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:55:45 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Borges
the google car...now needs a Steering Wheel...according to the Powers that be...
we shall see
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:55:57 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
To: Borges
Did you see the thing yesterday that GM projects shipping a self driving Caddy in 2016? This stuff is coming faster than we think.
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:56:33 AM PDT
by
discostu
(We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
To: discostu
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posted on
09/08/2014 8:57:53 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: wideawake
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:02:40 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: discostu
”self driving Caddy in 2016?”
Will it be programmed to hog the left lane and not use its turn signals?
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:09:08 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: Borges
At this time, most homeowners pay someone to maintain their yard for $50-$100 a month. It is a mystery to me why robotic lawnmowers aren't out there in force - a roomba like mower which every day goes out and trims off the top couple tens of an inch of growth, deploys seed in areas which are showing a lack of green, communicating with the watering system to add more water to certain areas, or slack off in areas which have been overwatered.
Just the commercial or educational locations seem a prime place to have robots - large fields of grass which have long defined times where no humans are present seem to be a primary target for the robotic industry, yet oddly, no one appears to be doing so.
Think about it though, the average homeowner pays $600 to $1200 a year for yard maintenance. A thousand dollar gizmo that does just a part of it could slash that number by 3/4s - a quarterly visit to trim bushes and other things that the robot can't handle. It would almost pay for itself the first year, and certainly by the second.
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:14:21 AM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Borges
Science Fiction writer Mack Reynolds was writing about this back in the sixties. . . and understood that the vast majority of jobs would be replaced by automation. His solution was that everyone would be born with an interest in the global common stock and receive dividends from the vast earnings the automation generated. It was the ultimate extension of Capitalism, but at that point became almost indistinguishable from fascism and socialism. But the largess of everything produced meant that so much was produced there was no privation. However, the biggest problem was ennui among the lower intelligent class.
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:23:31 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Borges
With all the automation creating that tremendous abundance- who is it for if most people are unemployed?
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:26:15 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: Mastador1
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:27:31 AM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
To: arthurus; discostu
With all the automation creating that tremendous abundance- who is it for if most people are unemployed?
That's one of the big questions. There would have to be a change in our socio-economic structure.
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:30:33 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Maybe a little description would be nice?
To: kingu
I sense a great script treatment. “When Lawnbots go bad...it is Blood on the Greenbelt.”
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:38:43 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Borges
Excellent video. It is 15 minutes, but very entertaining and dead on about the immediate future of technology. Well worth the watch.
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:46:07 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
To: Travis McGee
I am the last one to ping anyone to a video on youtube, but this one is an excellent narrative about the immediate future of humans and technology.
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:52:03 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
To: arthurus
With all the automation creating that tremendous abundance- who is it for if most people are unemployed?
And that's why the videos claims can't come to full fruition as claimed. Selling loads of cheap goods doesn't work as a business plan if the amount of money everyone has is zero.
Market economies have a way of correcting for this kind of thing.
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posted on
09/08/2014 9:57:27 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
To: Borges
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posted on
09/08/2014 10:31:03 AM PDT
by
gaijin
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