THE TWILIGHT ZONE WAS WAY AHEAD OF ITS TIME
Posted on 07/03/2021 5:45:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
AI does the bulk of scheduling and manning for fulfillment centers everywhere at Amazon.
They’re learning from China’s use of ubiquitous surveillance and AI to calculate social credit scores.
Companies like Amazon are why revolutions happen.
Sirius Cybernetics executives were the first against the wall when the revolution came in that Douglas Adams book.
Yes!
At least we still have Lotus Notes where I am.
I despise it.
I really hate to say this but people are a pain in the butt, to employ. I’m one of those guys that design automation.
Robots get sick but they don’t sue you, argue with you, or strike. Many tasks can and should be automated. Many cannot be.
The very real problem modern society has is what to do with all our redundant and non-productive people?
As we see in inner cities just throwing money at them doesn’t work. People need self respect. They need to feel needed.
There will always be bums and thugs, but that is a very small minority.
I don’t have an answer, but it is something all the world has to deal with.
American workers are the new slaves.
They will quit the firings when they start using driverless cars with robot delivery agents to take the packages from the delivery van to the robot recipient.
Yea, I’ve been downsized and let go a couple times. I never had an appeal either.
“It’s been a nice 18 years. Have a good life.”
Our elites will probably start a world war to get rid of the surplus population.
If buy conspiracy theories.
“Downsized” == we hired some people from India.
Local delivery drivers and truckers are not the only ones this sort of automated control is affecting. A majority of low-skill labor is coming under increasing techno-management. It’s not a positive development for the workers involved.
Rockford was as well with The House On Willis Avenue.
Amazon hasn’t subsisted on my dime for many, many years.
I’ve always thought teams of self organized people could work on city beautification, i.e. general clean up in exchange for decent food and shelter. Just pulling weeds along sidewalks helps.
Some more automation is going to start taking over a couple of jobs that were fairly hand labor intricate after a lot of development.
The transition should be graceful as most of the operators are closing in on retirement.
So what happens when there are no jobs for low IQ people?
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