I find it hard to believe that paralegals and legal assistants are going to be replaced by robots, as this article says.
If they can replace Loan Officers, then couldn’t they replace most government employees with robots?
While technology has its uses I have never understood the drive to eliminate people from the workforce. What are all these displaced people going to do? Be programmers or engineers, I doubt. We will create an atmosphere where 2/3 of our society cannot find a job. There is no useful purpose behind being an actor or philosopher. Somebody has to make stuff.
I for one like doing all my business with people not machines. I don’t want people out of the loop making decision and other critical paths like airline pilots (not in article but coming) or security personnel
Wish Lawyers was at the top of that list instead of the bottom.
I hope it mentions toll booth operators.
It appears to me that many of them exist just to take in enough tolls to support their salary and benefits.
Seriesly?
Are we back in the 70’s “crisis mode”; DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
What’s next; “Will your job will be outsouced to an off-shore 3rd-world contry?”
Reality sux.
Musicians and singers? Haven’t they heard that some people prefer “live” music?
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.
No mention of politicians?
I did not see ‘engineers’ on that list.
Bartenders... Right...
{sigh} The word limit always seems to magically be right before the critical information. Are you sure this is an "excerpt" and not a "teaser?" Do you know or even care how annoying that is?
I find it hard to believe that paralegals and legal assistants are going to be replaced by robots, as this article says.You'd better believe it. Right now I'm working on a suite of legal documentation and research programs that my company will be marketing to BigLaw firms, to be trickled down to the smaller ones. 90% of what a paralegal writes and researches? Automated. We're already receiving blowback from some paralegals who have seen what we're working on. They know it's going to put them out of a job. Fixed costs versus increasing salary/benefits and all that.
If they can replace Loan Officers, then couldn’t they replace most government employees with robots?You betcha. Public employees are going to be running scared.
While technology has its uses I have never understood the drive to eliminate people from the workforce.Money. Humans are increasing costs in the workforce. Salary increases, COL increases, taxes, benefits, sick days, so on. Machines are fixed costs. You pay a fixed cost to install, a fixed cost to maintain. Makes for better balance sheets.
Learn to make and program Robots I guess... until the Robots learn to make and program other Robots...Already done. Not widespread, but the basics have been figured.
I install and support automation. 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.So do I and I have to completely disagree. Let me install one of my company's Total Document Systems in an office. You can fire all of the secretaries and 90% of the office workers. The remaining 10% don't even need to be clever, they can just be trained monkeys if need be. And productivity will INCREASE.
Unfortunately, the majority of the human race just isn’t smart enough to function effectively in a high-tech environment.That's the sad truth.
Increasingly in recent decades, muscle power is irrelevant. More and more intelligence is needed for the jobs that are truly in demand....The other issue is that fewer and fewer people are needed in raw numbers.Man, you are preaching it. Dead straight on. This is absolutely correct.
@Resolute Conservative: What are all these displaced people going to do?
@Sherman Logan: More and more of our population is going to be falling out the bottom of the job market. There will simply be no economic demand for anything they are capable of doing or of learning to do. What are these people going to do with their lives?...What is everybody else going to do?...IOW, most people will be redundant to the economy. So in what sense will they have purpose or meaning?There are three realistic possibilities: 1) Expansion 2) War 3) Welfare, probably a minimum guaranteed income Without being able to eliminate scarcity completely, #3 is simply not feasible. So you are left with #1 and #2. I personally and morally disagree with the use of pointless wars to reduce surplus population, so that leaves #1. But this means we have to have a NATIONAL effort at expansion, even if we don't have a point or reason to expand. Not that one is necessary; we can always make up reasons why we need to colonize the ocean floor or space or whereever. Heck, the Cold War was predicated on reasons like that. But it's going to require national effort and as much as I hate it, there'll probably have to be some government incentive applied.