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Report: Machines to handle over half workplace tasks by 2025
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| April 17, 2018
| Jamey Keaten
Posted on 09/17/2018 8:11:21 AM PDT by C19fan
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:11:21 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Salesman: This gadget will do half the work for you.
Customer: Great, I'll take two.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:14:12 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: C19fan
Just at McDonalds alone, I’ll predict that a quarter of all positions are automated within five years. If some idiot was thinking a life-long position with McDonalds....they are screwed.
To: C19fan
Which is why the elites are convinced we need to keep importing unskilled third world labor . . .
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:16:29 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
To: pepsionice
And yet McDonalds used people in India to answer drive through orders rather than automating that
To: C19fan
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:17:14 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: a fool in paradise
And yet McDonalds used people in India to answer drive through orders rather than automating that I wonder if McDonald's in India use call centers in the US to take orders???
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:18:31 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: C19fan
Great Power Loom Riots, Part II coming up.
To: C19fan
By 2022, the report says, roughly 75 million jobs worldwide will be lost, but that could be more than offset by the creation of 133 million new jobs.Doing what? Giving each other therapy because they don't have a job any more?
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:19:58 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
To: C19fan
can machines design, test and build integrated circuits yet?
µ Ω Θ ∞ ∙ ■ ○
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:21:28 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: C19fan
Total automation is only a matter of time. Robots have essentially been exploring space for us already.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:21:49 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: C19fan
Ok genius
Invent a robot to put in solar systems. My job
Climb a 24 foot to 40 foot ladder
Find rafters on roof
Put in feet rails and panels
Figure out what kind of electrical panel. Go to hardware store find parts
Run conduit and secure in attic
Yeah right !
Theyll never invent a robot that can even put wire in a pipe
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:23:19 AM PDT
by
Truthoverpower
(The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
To: C19fan
Jobs won’t be lost. People will just be doing different things. Wealth will increase. After all, the economy didn’t crash when the steam engine was invented. Or, the automobile. Or, the PC....
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:23:30 AM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
To: pepsionice
On a road trip this past weekend I grabbed coffee at McDonald’s twice.
Both had kiosks, but I didn’t use either. You could see the smears from countless other customers.
At the second location, a worker cleaning the soda fountain saw me waiting in line and told me to use the kiosk. “Don’t be afraid, it’s easy to use.”
“I’m not afraid of anything but the germs on it” was my reply.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:23:47 AM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: ßuddaßudd
can machines design, test and build integrated circuits yet? If they are not already, they soon will, count on it.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:26:43 AM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It's a real problem. When EPCOT was built (1980s?) one of their futuristic and mostly all-wrong predictions got it correct about a world where 10% of the people can do 90% of the meaningful work. What they got wrong is that it was possible to have social planning to keep people productive and active. A large percentage of the population needs activity and responsibility to stay civilized. The Luddites were on to something, so were the Pharaohs with their make-work pyramid building projects.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:28:00 AM PDT
by
grania
To: Truthoverpower
Theyll never invent a robot that can even put wire in a pipe Thou sayest.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:28:56 AM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
To: DugwayDuke
I believe that is “normalization bias”.
We are used to the idea that tech improvements lead to new and additional opportunities. We consider that to be the normal course of events.
But it is not inevitable. It does not always have to go that way.
I think we are moving away from the phase of civilization where low skilled people had productive work to do. That may be a problem.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:29:11 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
To: pepsionice
There will be a political revolution before these numbers ever come to pass.
Socialist? Communist? Violent Luddites? Who knows.
All I know is that a large swath of the populace is not going to stand by and allow automation to throw them into poverty.
To: ClearCase_guy
ClearCase_guy wrote: “I think we are moving away from the phase of civilization where low skilled people had productive work to do. That may be a problem.”
Perhaps, but that has always been the claim in the past. No real reason to believe ‘This time is different’. Actually, there is such a reason and that reason is to justify certain social re-distributive big government policies, ie, jobs for all, guaranteed income, etc, etc.
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posted on
09/17/2018 8:33:51 AM PDT
by
DugwayDuke
("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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