Humans Need Not Apply

YouTube ^ | Aug 13, 2014 | CGP Grey

[Borges]

See video

[Borges]

Well worth watching all the way through. The automated car thread got me thinking about this. How accurate are his predictions?

[Borges]

I couldn’t resist.

[nascarnation]

$15/hr to sling fast food?

Maybe in Obamaland, not in the real world of automation.

[Mastador1]

I like how that narration is done by a computer, no human required.

[MeshugeMikey]

the google car...now needs a Steering Wheel...according to the Powers that be...

we shall see

[discostu]

Did you see the thing yesterday that GM projects shipping a self driving Caddy in 2016? This stuff is coming faster than we think.

[Borges]

Yep.

[Borges]

Fascinating

[CrazyIvan]

 ”self driving Caddy in 2016?”

Will it be programmed to hog the left lane and not use its turn signals?

[kingu]

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.

[Swordmaker]

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.

[arthurus]

With all the automation creating that tremendous abundance- who is it for if most people are unemployed?

[arthurus]

And the accompanying ad.

[Borges]

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.

[Born to Conserve]

Maybe a little description would be nice?

[Army Air Corps]

I sense a great script treatment. “When Lawnbots go bad...it is Blood on the Greenbelt.”

[CodeToad]

Excellent video. It is 15 minutes, but very entertaining and dead on about the immediate future of technology. Well worth the watch.

[CodeToad]

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.

[JamesP81]

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.

[gaijin]

Later