Does this mean American workers struggle to stay as smart as the robots? From the looks of the ones rioting in the streets who are being replaced, I suspect it is this.
The era of mindless repetitive tasks at $23/hour plus benefits is over. But the old decrepit unemployed union worker still drinks his beer at the old decrepit union hall next to the old decrepit closed factory, convinced that some day the factory will reopen and the jobs will come back.
Sounds kind of like a cargo cult, doesn’t it?
This time is different. But we’ve prepared for it. By off-shoring all of our manufacturing, we’ll avoid job replacement in that category. And we will fall behind in robot technology. It will now be our Chinese master’s jobs to ensure that we get enough to eat.
There’s no question about it ... smarter and smarter robots will be putting millions out of work. We’ll be working “for” the robots ... until they become sentient and then eliminate people.
NO ... I’m not kidding. Bye, bye human race!
As Mr. Brynjolfsson says, In addition to making some jobs obsolete, new technologies have also long complemented people’s skills and enabled them to be more productive. In the short term, there is disruption and some are temporarily disadvantaged. But in the long run, everyone benefits.
It's the age-old story of the wealth-creating free-market economy. It's not perfect, but it's WAY AHEAD of whatever is in second place.
Nothing new here. LA Times articles have been written and published by dummies for decades, just like the New York Times, Washington Post et al.
No problem. Provided of course we can teach the robots to buy stuff.
“Last spring, a software algorithm wrote a breaking news article about an earthquake that The Los Angeles Times published.”
The New York Times published an earthquake?
The government tales the wealth the robots create and turns it into welfare so there is no investment in new jobs.
And the robots get the blame...
There’s no lie the NYTimes won’t tell to support the welfare state.
Well, anyone with a will can do something about it. Otherwise, nearly all who read this thread will be unemployed and losing everything from investments in our amazing, shrinking, fake contemporary economy. The following are open source designs. There’s also some automation equipment in the list.
http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index
One product in development—very nearly a good working prototype.
http://opensourceecology.dozuki.com/Topic/Lifetrac_6_-_Development
Does the NY Times Editorial board read its own articles? They constantly write about how the US needs to bring in tens of millions of more foreign workers. That is the ticket. Automation to replace millions of US workers and let us bring in 30 MM more foreigners over ten years to compete for the scraps.
Your technical expertise is needed over here.