Coming to a city near you...
Posted on 03/12/2014 1:57:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Mobile robots and "smart" computers are threatening to replace up to half the U.S. workforce within the next decade or two, according to a Bloomberg report.
The report cites an Oxford University study that identified more than 700 occupations at risk of computer automation.
Here are the jobs that are most at risk, based on the study.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
They have eyes.
Cool but what about live music? Hmmmm...maybe the younger generations don’t have the interest in live music since they are raised on iPods.
Not robots, computers with fill in the blank legal forms.
There is a complete electronic toll road around Toronto. As you enter and exit cameras photo your license and you get a bill at the end of the month. Its been around for a while now and it ain’t cheap but you don’t ever interact with anyone.
You would think doctors were safe...but using the internet, some x-rays are now read buy Radiologist in India.
And in related news, Sheila Jackson Lee thinks the Constitution is 400 years old . . . .
Trust me when I tell you that there is no job loss ratio. It just shifts labor from the grunt pool to the clever grunt pool.
I’d like to see reporters and lawyers go. Congressmen too.
The Robots will be working and living and having romances while we humans are fat and floating around on our hover beds drinking cupcakes-in-a-cup like in the movie, Wall-E.
That’s the standard response.
Unfortunately, the majority of the human race just isn’t smart enough to function effectively in a high-tech environment.
Up to perhaps 250 years ago, the primary demand for human labor was for muscle power. Galley rowers, serfs, slaves, etc. For a lot of these “jobs” even fairly severely retarded people would work just fine.
Starting with the industrial revolution, increasing numbers of jobs required some degree of intelligence in addition to muscle power. This was fine, as most people’s intelligence was underused anyway.
Increasingly in recent decades, muscle power is irrelevant. More and more intelligence is needed for the jobs that are truly in demand.
People dodge this issue by claiming that the problem just means we need more education.
But native intelligence puts an upper limit on the extent to which a person is capable of being educated.
The other issue is that fewer and fewer people are needed in raw numbers. In 1950 GM was probably the most valuable company on the planet. Directly and indirectly it employed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people.
Today Apple and Google are probably two of the most valuable companies. They employ, by comparison, very few people, especially Google.
A great deal of wealth is being produced by very few people. Extrapolate this trend a few decades and you have immense wealth being generated by even fewer people.
What is everybody else going to do?
RE: maybe the younger generations don’t have the interest in live music since they are raised on iPods.
You can manufacture any singer with enough auto tuning technology.
Watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irk3_p15RJY
HOW TO CREATE A SEXY POP STAR (Even if she can’t sing )
No mention of politicians?
I did not see ‘engineers’ on that list.
I also got a letter from my doctor's cardiologist specialist to tell me I have an urgent condition to be seen for.
I have a left branch bundle condition I have lived with for 30 years. I explained that to them and they were confused by my nomenclature.
The radiologist concern was because they had my name wrong.
Welcome to the modern version of the people's healthcare.
Bartenders... Right...
Ahhh! You must have the extended list.
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