Posted on 03/09/2016 1:07:14 PM PST by C19fan
Company seeking investment and market share commissions study, issues study and makes categorical declarations about the future....based on its own study.
This kind of circle jerk makes climate change research look legitimate.
Thanks for that.
Still, all the alternate jobs mentioned would not make up for the loss due to robots.
We are heading toward socialism out of economics and necessity. There are going to be a lot of useless people.
hehe - I thought that too.
This is interesting: “We forecast that 16 percent of jobs will disappear due to automation technologies between now and 2025, but that jobs equivalent to 9 percent of today’s jobs will be created,” said Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder in a report. “Physical robots require repair and maintenance professionals — one of several job categories that will grow up around a more automated world.”
Err - won’t they just make robots to fix robots? Duh!!
The good thing about a mix of old and new tech is that:
A) a person with a good idea won’t be poor as dirt and unable to implement it.
B) everyone won’t be forced into survival mode and therefore be incapable of risk taking and creative thought.
Rap is racist as well as basketball.
They need to add more ‘whiteness’ to basketball, like bowling or hockey.
So traditional cars will be replaced by automated ones. So when people get killed, who will be at fault?
The owner of the automated car, or the manufacturer??
They said that computers would kill off office workers. We have more paper pushers than ever.
There’s a whole lot of bookkeepers who would disagree with you!
I guess, in a bizarre kind of way you are right. If we don't have jobs, we are already hurting, and the robot apocalyse won't make it any worse.
The more jobs we have, the more the economy can bounce back and redistribute jobs as the robots cause labor dislocations.
If the people don't have jobs, who will pay for the robots--that is, who will buy the stuff the robots make? I think either the robots will do as automation always has done, which is to free up labor to do jobs that haven't been invented yet . . . Or there won't be many robots. I don't see how the supply can surpass the demand.
the article fails to understand the real change producing “bots”
the really life changing bots involve cell phones and are currently heavily used in China. The cell phone aps call a bot that is the slave of say Dunkin Doughnuts. The camera looks at the symbol on the wall and pops up a menu from which selection is made. The bot has been told how auto payment will be made, the order is entered and produced. The customer is called to pick it up, already paid and ready to go with no cash passing hands.
These ap bots are real, as in now in China, and are life changing for the youth that have flocked to them. The aps will make obsolete the very expensive order taking robot kiosks palnned here. Such hardware is already obsolete before it is even rolled out.
The phone ap bots of which there are lots and lots are truly disruptive
Read all about in a very long article in the last issue of Forbes
And because many jobs will be eventually eliminated by robotics and other forms of automation, it is beyond stupid for the US to be moving any of its labor intensive production to cheap labor nations. We should produce what we consume and give employment of American citizens first priority.
We can assist developing nations by helping them to establish better economies and to produce what is needed in their nation or region of the world. Trade should involve the trade in products that are unique to particular nations, and not the current practice of trading US factories and jobs for cheap labor.
Kicking out illegal aliens would free up millions of jobs that couldn’t be outsourced for Americans.
Most of those paper pushers go into spasms if their precious printer doesn’t respond instantly.
I truly despise printers.
When the Fed Govt went “paperless” they also bought thousands of desktop printers. Now they use more paper than before there were PCs. LOL!
Where I work and have to support printers in a manufacturing facility, it seems that there always has to be yet another network printer even though there is a network printer a few feet away.
I despise printers. I really, really do.
Wall-E was actually a fairly accurate movie but for one thing: they didn’t show the MASSIVE section of society left without any kind of work, either relegated to giant slums or having moved out to the countryside to take up subsistence farming after BnL literally robotized 99% of all occupations.
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
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