Posted on 12/01/2017 7:04:17 AM PST by C19fan
Over the next 13 years, the rising tide of automation will force as many as 70 million workers in the United States to find another way to make money, a new study from the global consultancy McKinsey predicts.
That means nearly a third of the American workforce could face the need to pick up new skills or enter different fields in the near future, said the report's co-author, Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute who studies business and economics.
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Per Shift.
Not going to happen. Seventy million? Ridiculous statement.
1. In the meantime, there will be a lot job openings for the makers of the “Robot”.
2. People installing the “Robots” will be hired.
3. People to maintain the “Robots” will be hired.
4. Restaurants and stores using the “Robots” will let us order our food or products with our smart phones and computers. This will create more jobs.
5. Those of us smart enough to invest in the companies making the robots will do very well.
The losers and whiners in life, will not do well. They are not smart enough nor motivated to retrain for 1-4 above. They will continue to be voters for the elite perverted rats in congress and their state government.
To late some states like California have 80% of the workforce are robots that look like humans look how their court system works and elections.
The first time on the road, recent reports read the driver-less transportation devise collided with another vehicle.
If you’re referring to the driver-less Taxi in Las Vegas, it was completely still when someone else (a person) backed into it, causing damage. That was not the fault of the robot/driver-less taxi.
Yes.
But how close to the rear of the truck was it? It doesn’t mean it wasn’t at fault if the taxi got so close behind the rear that the truck driver couldn’t see it or have room to stop.
I think you meant to reply to post 25, not mine.
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