hey Mr. Bill...I'd like to know what robot is going to wipr your ugly little butt when you're just another demented peasant?...and what bot is going to put that catheter up your ying yang to drain your bladder?..and who is going to to dress your open sores on your coccyx and who is going to doing rescue breathing for you when you're dying?....
the whole fact of the matter is that there will actually be need for MORE jobs in the long run...but they won't be manufactuting...they'll be FIXING things and transporting things and taking care of children and adults....
software will however make parts of the nurses job easier which means they won’t have to hire as many nurses. this is already happening.
For example the old method of taking blood pressure require a nurse to place the cuff on you, pump it up etc.
I believe he refers to those tasks that are repetitive and routine. Nurses used to spend most of their time monitoring blood pressure, taking temperatures, pulses and recording those results. This required a significant amount of their time. Now each patient has their own monitor to record data and transmit to the patient file.
What you describe are those that require personal attention, and even some of those may eventually be improved with technology.
Look at what IBM is doing with Watson. People will be surprised that it isn’t just lower skill labor that can get automated, knowledge workers are threatened as well.
Robots for that very thing are being researched today.
“....hey Mr. Bill...I’d like to know what robot is going to wipr your ugly little butt when you’re just another demented peasant?...”
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By that time another robot on the death panel has already decided that Mr. Bill should just quietly die.
Perhaps the invention of the computer is not the blessing we, at first, thought to be.
In many instances it turned out to be a de-humanizing machine.
In Japan they are testing an elder bathing robot. If they can get it to work and be safe it will be a wonderful thing.