Posted on 10/28/2014 12:31:21 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Can you say...Warning Will Robinson!...:)
Do the robots speak Spanish too?
Oh my gosh...NASA laid HAL off?
When I want to be left alone to browse a store, I try to look like I really, really need help. When I want help, I try to look like I’m just aimlessly browsing, and taking up space. Seems to work more often than not.
Technology is coming for your job next. I guarantee you will see it happen in ten to twenty years.
And if youre job isn't directly replaced by a robot, the customers and clients that make your job possible will have no money to pay you because their jobs were replaced by robots.
Then you'll see how it feels to be a loser.
Unfortunately, don’t know that our educational system is addressing the impact of these changes or the skills that will be required to meet these new job opportunities in their curriculum.
You haven't a clue.
Robots will fix robots, or at worst, some human "mechanic" will swap out modular parts that the robots diagnostic software signals needs replacing.
It would take about as much training to do that as to change the battery in your flashlight, and such a job will pay accordingly.
I see what is coming. And so long as I have a choice, I refuse to use such job destroying technology.
Oh sure, take on a student loan the size of a small mortgage, only to find that by the time you earn your 4 year degree, the technology you learned is obsolete already or if not, those jobs have gone to India.
Thank you, Greysard.
At least someone around here has a clue.
But I very much suspect it’s worse than even you realize.
In ten to twenty years, technology will be able to replace most workers in the USA.
If that happens, most of us will be on the dole.
And there will be no way to improve your lot.
It will be a feudal paradise or a socialist paradise:
either the means of production will be owned by a handful with the rest of us on the government dole.
Or the government will nationalize the means of production with everybody on the dole.
It will be the end of freedom either way.
"Resistance is futile"
Home Depot Dalek
Socialists tell us that those freed up workers will do “something else.” But nobody can spell out what that “something else” is, considering that automation will be eating into human labor everywhere. So far, the best idea the government could come up with is to tax workers and to send those tax monies to those who don’t work. This devalues labor.
When this takes off, robots will replace house/office/hospital cleaners, waiters, snow plowers, taxi drivers, administrative assistants, and grass mowers. I see the day that those who are weak, sick or disabled will use robots to care for them. Talk about a fat and lazy society...wait until everyone has a robot to do their house chores.
Humans will be devalued in the future; even moreso than now. We will be viewed as useless eaters messing up the billionares’ globe if we are not of use to them and their robots. We will be paid to survive and we will be totally controlled by our feeders - and valued as a herd of cattle without the steak.
This is where the socialists’ agenda 21 future sees us as captives of a few overcrowded cities; unable to roam about the billionaire’s enviornment. Our housing will look like the trunk of a car. Crazyland.
That was last decade.
Massive Underwater Ditch-Digging Robot
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/massive-underwater-ditch-digging-robot
Good point. All these posters yucking it up because low-skilled workers are losing their jobs will be in for a real surprise when their STEM/ IT careers are outsourced to Indians or their high-skilled service jobs replaced by machines.
Capitalism is great, but this attitude that businesses solely exist to make the highest profits by paying slave wages is unChristian. A Christian ethic understands that businesses are not only there to make a profit, but to be part of the local/national economy.
Somewhere along the way, the Republican party became pro-corporation uber alles and not pro-business/pro-worker.
If you make human workers redundant, you have an unemployed class of people who will require government handouts, charity or will turn to crime.
Laugh it up folks, but one day it might be “you” replaced by a robot/slave-wage foreigner. It won’t be so funny then.
Thank you.
But it’s not “might” be; for almost everyone, the threat is “will be.”
That last one has been out for a while. Think Roomba for your yard.
http://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/robotic-mowers/husqvarna-robotic-mowers-for-homeowners/
I believe so has Winn Dixie. Particularly in the Plant City, Florida store.
IMO, our entire college educational system needs a major overhaul. For every eight semesters you spend in college you waste at least four semesters studying topics that really don’t matter or have anything to do with your career choice.
One of my grandsons opted to attend a very small affordable local four year college that offered a two year electrician’s program and allowed him to live at home. He’s now employed in the oil patch working more hours than he wants but his employer cannot find qualified people so he’s also taken over some training responsibilities. He also spends an hour a day taking an on-line computer technology class. Although he’s only 23, he’s made some wise choices, has $25,000 in the bank, a new pick-up truck and a new girlfriend who is a cost accountant for the same company. Ask him and he’ll tell you life is good!
That claim has been made for decades. Reality is we become more productive. We find we don't need an attendant to drive the elevator once the control become simple. Distributed Control Systems get spread throughout the refinery and we have few accidents and deaths.
Some will use it as the excuse to lay back and coast on the dole. Others will be glad their time is freed up to take on better challenges.
I'm happy for the society that uses photocells and electric lights and doesn't hire the gas light attendant and 20 foot ignitor pole.
While robots can’t replace all workers, some jobs could easily be automated in the face of raising the minimum wage. Consider a fast food restaurant, certainly placing orders and payment could be handled easily by robots and even cooking burgers and fries could be automated. The $15 per hour minimum wage crowd better be careful if they get what they want.
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