Won't happen if we learn robotics. Some of the kids are learning robotics. The rest hope to get a job in Hollywood, but who really needs yet another Starship Enterprise model maker?
"Won't happen if we learn robotics" - RightWhale
I agree that robotics can help minimize the labor problems. However whoever has the cheapest labor to manufacture robotics, the best and cheapest programmers and the most engineering capability is going to be at an advantage.
Also if we don't maintain our manufacturing base, there will be nothing to automate. We will have to build new plants from scratch, and much of the necessary knowledge will have been transferred overseas.
Automation and robotics are two fields that should be ultra ultra high on our protected and promoted industries.
However this alone is going to cause major shifts in the economy. Major categories of workers will be displaced as automation occurs and higher and higher levels of management functions are going to be automated.
How we deal with this is going to be critical. It has the potential to aggravate class differences. Retooling the workforce to available jobs is key. Supporting them during the transition is also key but it is a cost that many of my fellow republicans are going to see as unnecessary handouts instead of supporting the economy as a whole.
Baseless assertion. Robotics is closely tied to computer programming and mechanial engineering, both of which have been outsourced.
Disagree. Robotics relies heavily on software engineering and the ability to actually build something. America seems bound and determined to ensure only Indians can do that.
Now, inventing new kinds of ways to sue each other might be our path to salvation. :~/