Posted on 11/15/2014 12:05:46 PM PST by Kaslin
50% of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025: Report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3224685/posts
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
Texas Leads Best States For Future Job Growth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3226814/posts
They are ALSO stealing my luggage!!!
THATS RACESS!
we cant blame ALL the robots ...now can we... just a few from broken homes I suspect...
Bender?
Bender? nope... Im stone cold sober...../s
I think the consumer will welcome the robot for a multitude of interactions they now consider problematic. Problematic because of human laziness, bad attitudes, behavior that results in costly lawsuits, sloppy work, favoritism, and probably a dozen more reasons.
But what will be done with the multitudes that cannot find even a simple job?
Automation has been removing blue collar jobs for 30 years or more, white collar workers better get use to it.
I don’t like the way technology is being used to turn American jobs into Third World jobs; I see the commercials for this “Green Dragon” software that turns broken English into the real deal, and at a chain convenience store I see non-English speakers have replaced the Americans that used to make the sandwiches via the use of touch-screens. Basically, you select your sandwich and ingredients (including quantities), and on the other side of the counter an imported “replacement American” sees it (probably as pictures) and makes the sandwich - without saying a word.
I hope to hell the author is right.
But I suspect he is ignoring the increasing evidence that cybernetic replacement of human workers is qualitatively different from mechanical replacement.
That Luddites have been proven wrong in the long term for 200 years now does not "prove" that they will continue to be wrong in the future.
Here's what I see as the biggest difference:
There will continue to be demand, indeed greatly increased demand, for certain human skills.
The problem is that those skills will almost all require well above average IQ. Those with below average or even normal IQ will simply be unable to handle them.
This means that demand, in an economic sense, will continue to drop indefinitely for at least 75% of the population. And those "not in demand" will add an IQ point or so every year.
This world is likely to have a great deal of "stuff" around, but require very few people to produce it. So how is the stuff distributed. I'm afraid I don't see any logical way for this to work out without making governments and those who run them more powerful.
Think Air France 447.
Contrary view on what jobs will remain - a large portion of which are the “dirty jobs” of Mike Rowe fame. Semi-skilled, manual labor, high pay, bad rap.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
Human servants then make a comeback, as an employment option.
"...these reference books were produced and collated in a massively parallel operation, with dozens or hundreds of human "computers" working on the same function with a different variable, like these women at NACA, the precursor to NASA...
Basically, you select your sandwich and ingredients (including quantities), and on the other side of the counter an imported “replacement American” sees it (probably as pictures) and makes the sandwich - without saying a word.
In its front counter area, this same Panera has six iPads with card-swipes glued on. They work beautifully. You can take your time, see all the customizations, etc.
If there is any kind of a line when you arrive, it is much easier to use one of the iPads than to wait. The last time I ordered their two flatbread sandwich selection from a human, it took literally minutes to explain what I was ordering. And, no, it wasn't a language problem, it was an inability on the part of the order taker to understand the menu.
“Automation has been removing blue collar jobs for 30 years or more, white collar workers better get use to it.”
Computers have been automating white-collar work for decades; the real problem is that the natural progression/obsolescence has been corrupted by the importation of millions of Asians to replace Americans in white-collar jobs (as was done with Latin Americans to blue-collar workers). Whenever Asians can’t be brought to fill the jobs here, the jobs simply move over there; after wrecking the tech sector for many Americans, they’ve moved on to the financial and medical sectors.
The plow, the cotton gin, windmills, dishwashers, ...
I’m not disputing the benefits of technology; explain to me how my example was good for anyone except the franchise owner that replaced his Americans with “replacement Americans”. I’m all for self-checkouts, but I wouldn’t like it if instead they just replaced American cashiers with Mexicans via technology.
I am not a FReeper. I am just a robot logged and automatically posting sarcastic comments.
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