I’m just glad I have a tech job....
for now...
What is that going to look like?
Computers should replace university professors first. They could certainly be programmed to spew the Leftist line just as 95% of professors do.
Just you wait, the Dims will be the first to lobby for “Sentient Robot Vopting Rights” and all the robots covered will be the ones built and programmed by State Supported Unions.....
BtD: "Yeah, sure. So where's the Doc?"
Robo-receptionist: "That function is no longer carried out by human doctors, Mr. Drill, as delineated in Section 31,562, part 214j, subsection 9153h in the 0bamacare program. Now please drop yer britches and get in line."
BtD: "Uh, waidaminnud. That thing is an oil drill."
Robo-receptionist: "We naturally have had to repurpose technology now banned by the EPA. Do not be alarmed. This unit has a clean track record of success."
BtD: "At colonoscopies?"
Robo-receptionist: "At drilling for oil. Spread 'em."
Especially Oxford professors!
Record their lectures, and can them!
Those horrible tractors took almost all the farming jobs!
Ban Tractors!
It is time to outlaw all Technology like in that movie Wizards.
These proclamations are reminiscent of those made by my AI professor 40 some years ago. He was all lathered up about how AI would put us all out of work in a handful of years. It all seems grossly out of step w/ reality. Oh, wait, college and reality don’t really go together. I think these guys need to get real jobs and the press needs to be more discriminating on what they publish. Anyway, in the Idiocracy we’re slouched to who’s going to have the brains to run all this advanced tech?
Nothing to get hung about....
It doesn’t matter much to me (baby boomer)
Use the robots to do far far more with less and less, thus lowering costs and making a far higher standard of living available to all.
Modern life in the devloped world: smart phones EVERYWHERE, tablets/laptops/desktops EVERYWHERE, the internet/wi-fi EVERYWHERE, cars that are mobile technology centers, airplanes that fly themselves with hundreds of people at near transonic mach numbers, tv's that get thousands of channels from geosynchronous satellites, food produced by one bored farmer driving a climate controlled automated harvesting machine...goes on and on endlessly.
What are people going to do? Build and run the machines that create the things they need.
Or didn't know they needed.
Just like now.
Well, I suppose there will not be much buying! Only our labor produces the wealth that is needed to make purchases. And if we find a way around this, then there is always “going Galt.” Why? Because there is much satisfaction in a job well done and enjoying the fruit of our labors, and if that is taken away from us, then an important part of living has been taken away from us.
I think the professors should be far more concerned with advanced technologies taking *their* jobs.
Already, MIT has put its entire curriculum online. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the first two years of college change only very slowly over time, and can be almost generic to accomplish the same instruction.
Only in the upper divisions do the professors really matter, and then, as individuals, tailor making their instruction, if they are good, so that their students have knowledge unique to that professor’s “school of thought”, on that particular subject.
All the robots will be manufactured in Red China and Mexico..