HydroVac systems....
Posted on 11/07/2014 4:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A paradigm shift is expected to be witnessed in the way workplaces operate over the next 15 years, making nearly 50 per cent of occupations existing today redundant by 2025, a report has said.
Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said.
The report titled 'Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace' has been prepared by realty consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, a property developer, after interviewing 220 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia, Europe and North America.
"Nearly 50 per cent of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025. New jobs will require creative intelligence, social and emotional intelligence and ability to leverage artificial intelligence. Those jobs will be immensely more fulfilling than today's jobs," the report said.
Workspaces with row of desks will become completely redundant, not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists, it said.
"The next 15 years will see a revolution in how we work, and a corresponding revolution will necessarily take place on how we plan and think about workplaces.
"The dramatic changes in how people work that we have seen in the past two decades will continue to evolve over the next 15 years, opening up new opportunities for companies to create value and enhance employee performance through innovative workplace strategies and designs," CBRE South Asia Chairman and Managing Director Anshuman Magazine said...
(Excerpt) Read more at business-standard.com ...
BFL.
Welfare queen will still be here.
Asimov
Not taking into account...wait for it........’The Rise of the Luddites!’
I had a Honeywell generator fail while under warranty. Took it to an authorized dealer that was also a qualified repair shop. They said there were no repair parts for that generator motor. They gave me a new one. Had it failed out of warranty it would have been worth the copper windings and aluminum as scrap.
Sometimes, I would knowingly pay more in order to speak to a polite, well trained person in a timely manner, vs punching in numbers. Sometimes the voice mail does not recognize or acknowledge your answer, so it asks you to please enter the information again, and again, and again because...
“Your call is very important to us!”.or “We are unusually busy today, our response may be delayed”, or “ Please chose from our new selections that have been recently redesigned for your convience!”
There will always be jobs for people who know how to fix mechanical stuff.
Like fighter jets.
HydroVac systems....
I have one child training to be a pastor and one training to be a doctor. Neither will be replaced by robots any time soon
How do they know? In 2050 the USA might not exist—it could be a part of East Asian Co-Properity Sphere or something.
The guy in the hole is the important one.
Nothing like breaking a water main or a 500 pair
telephone cable to teach you to make sure the laborer in the hole is experienced and competent.
That much automation and efficiency will likely be deflationary, and it’ll need to be since human labor will be increasingly devalued. There will have to be a level of equilibrium reached since demand from actual human beings is assumed and required. Yet another race to the bottom, it seems. Intelligent people with skills will have the ability to adapt. People of below average intelligence and those who have not kept skills current will suffer. It’ll be a grand time to be retired, assuming retirement accounts survive unscathed and taxes don’t skyrocket. Sitting on a nest egg in an era of deflation with ever-increasing robotic efficiency could be very appealing, but it could also be very alienating, since elderly as a group are the least likely to embrace sweeping changes.
Does Jackass have a last name?
Will we say goodbye to Walmart door greeters? /s
If a robot can land on an aircraft carrier, robots can (and should) dig ditches.
Someone once said that all successes look like failures in the middle.
I suspect the opposite is just as true: all failures look like successes in the middle.
Like fighter jets
You don't get it.
First off, there may be no fighter jets, just disposable pilotless fighter missiles. Such a weapon would be vastly simpler to build because there would be no need to provide for life support of a living pilot.
They would be simple and modular, and if they ever need "repair" it would be simply a matter of swapping a modular part, like replacing the battery on your cordless drill.
Or maybe a new part is printed on the spot, and the "mechanic" snaps it into place.
Or maybe they just print a whole new missile.
Or maybe damaged fighter missles are simply broken up and the resultant scrap melted or shredded and reused.
But there may not even be those: you're supposing the wars of the future will be fought like the wars of the past.
Wars may not even be fought against nation states.
Or wars may be fought by tiny insect sized weapons that swarm an enemy and sting the enemy to death if the enemy is human, or if machine, interest themselves into the gearing, vents, or circuitry to short it out or cut the connections.
And if the congregation has no jobs and no money for the collection plate, how will your pastor live?
Your son the doctor might still have a job, but might not be paid all that much, again because it will probably be the state who pays him because being out of work, most people will be on the dole.
And anyway, some in the medical profession are already having their services replaced by robots.
The first to go will be dental hygienists, the demise of which profession is already showing up on endangered profession lists.
I just fired up Google, said "Ok Google", then asked "Can a robot pick strawberries?" Google echoed what I voiced on the screen and coughed up a result page.
I wound up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk1Yn0aAURA
Are you worried? I'm not. I like cheap strawberries!
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