A tiny number of very skillful people will do most of the brain-work, and use the internet to publish their work. Here the word "publish" includes the concept of "manufacturing," through 3-D printing technology and other things that will be derived from it.
The concept of a job as a necessity will slowly die out. Vast amounts of human misery will result; the disappearance of survival jobs will give rise to new types of jobs, and new types of problems.
The need to judge and gauge the character of strangers will become even more important, while at the same time becoming harder to accomplish.
The medical profession will undergo the same transformation that the profession of machinist has undergone, only much faster.
All these trends are already underway; you can see it happening, if you pay attention.
America really, really needs some sort of import tariff.
Just saying.
Last thing we need is more Americans sitting idle while collecting checks.
Am going to read the whole thing
pay attention to this!!!
ping
This needn’t change the participation in work, only the character of it. We put our thinking in boxes and imagine an array of metal men doing what humans do now. It does not have to happen like that. For one thing, even if metal men could do every such thing, who services the metal men? We find robotics a lot more challenging than the Rosie of Jetsons fame. And attempts at artificial intelligence end up ceding a tribute to the divine design of the human brain. (And for that matter the soul, the part of the human being that does not reside in this 3-dimensional mortal coil.)
If we let our ideas honor God and otherwise be unfettered, we will quickly see a plethora of opportunity. It’s only when we surrender to fatalism of thought that we fail.
For those tempted by cry Luddism, hold your thought. This is nothing like the switch from agricultural revolution to the first machine age. The new displaced cannot migrate into textiles mills and great manufacturing hubs on the 19th Century. Labour-saving technology is now sweeping all sectors, including services. “The challenge is that much more immense now,” he said.
(from the above source-article)
The rest of us will design more sophisticated robots to be manufactured in China and then brought over here to fetch us beer and the newspaper! And take our dogs out for a walk on a cold day
The left’s answer is to reduce the population. Our answer should be to eliminate over-regulation and taxation to let capitalism create jobs naturally.
In either case I suspect service jobs will proliferate turning most people into slaves under leftists,or self-respecting entrepreneurs under conservatives.
This is the wave of the future. Good or bad it is going to happen.
Bit of strangeness going on. When I go to that link I get a notice that says the web page has detected a virus on my computer.
If robots make all the products then no one will have money to buy the products the robots make.
Amnesty will fix this.
Player Piano.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Scribners
1952
The only sobering thought is, how would the human race deal with a perfect world?
the article is right — and I’m in IT, so while I am doing this stuff, it scares me what it will all lead to in a few decades
This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. I’m almost certain that we are setting it up to be a bad thing but it doesn’t have to be horrible. We will need new priorities and an almost infinitely higher respect for education along with mincome but we could take it in stride.
This is one of these “fear technology” articles that the MSM has pushed for well over a century. One can find articles pushing fear of electricity back in the late Victorian Age.
One wonders what these utopians would prefer. Would they like to go back to the full employment offered by Ancient Egypt when thousands toiled to build the pyramids without benefit of even the wheel?
Part of the Agenda 21 goal of reducing human population by 85%.
Isaac Asimov’s Robot novels covered this many years ago. Earth outlaws robots because of the effect they were having on humanity. The outer planets didn’t and he goes into detail about what happened to the people on some of the planets.