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Robots will take over most jobs in the world by 2045
The Economic Times ^ | Jun 6, 2016 | Techradar

Posted on 06/06/2016 3:04:31 PM PDT by plain talk

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To: plain talk
"I was reading a book the other day."
"Reading a book?"
"Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?"
"Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about."

- Jean Harlow (as Kitty Packard) and Marie Dressler (as Carlotta Vance), Dinner at Eight (1934)

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They were naive back then.

Sexbots are just around the corner.

21 posted on 06/06/2016 3:29:39 PM PDT by x
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To: plain talk

There will be a big rise in robot repair engineers and techs.


22 posted on 06/06/2016 3:30:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MeganC

To repair the robots.


23 posted on 06/06/2016 3:30:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: tet68

Vote Robot Reagan 2080.


24 posted on 06/06/2016 3:31:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: plain talk

Well, by 2045 my job will be “being retired”. A robot may be able to do nothing better than me. But it won’t be able to do nothing with more style than me ;-)


25 posted on 06/06/2016 3:32:17 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: plain talk

Much of the work in robotics is done with open source design. All the robots are belong to us. Besides, global, overly centralized production will end soon. How? That will be a surprise. Give it six years if that long.


26 posted on 06/06/2016 3:32:37 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: plain talk

Don’t care...I’l be dead.


27 posted on 06/06/2016 3:35:16 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: MNDude
there were many Twilight Zone episodes predicting this back in the 60’s.

Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov were predicting this further back than that (Twilight Zone had plots based on the writings of many sci-fi authors). I recall reading some stories from these authors of a time when people would only work a few hours a week, and the rest of their time would be taken up by hobbies. One of which was assisting their robots who did all the creating. One of the reasons the future of mankind is painted so brightly is the thought that robots will create and maintain infrastructure for humans. Who needs a replicator (as in Star Trek) when robots create everything? I see it as a good thing that robots will do the heavy lifting for us. That will leave us time to be philosophers and poets (well, some of us, the rest will be protesting and destroying stuff).

28 posted on 06/06/2016 3:37:04 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: plain talk

This will not end well.


29 posted on 06/06/2016 3:38:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: plain talk

Robots are just more advanced and concentrated forms of capital

The old rules will still apply - or may even be magnified. Which places treat the owners of capital the best i.e.) low taxes, clear/reasonable regulations, minimal government interference and corruption?


30 posted on 06/06/2016 3:40:05 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: roadcat

as the saying goes “Idle hands do the devil’s work.” Look at the inner city!


31 posted on 06/06/2016 3:41:14 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: roadcat
That will leave us time to be philosophers and poets

Or just fat people in chairs (see Wal-E)

32 posted on 06/06/2016 3:42:35 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: plain talk

In the 70’s they were saying the same thing. Still hasn’t happened. Just like the flying cars we were all going to be flitting around in by 1990. LOL!


33 posted on 06/06/2016 3:45:51 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: roadcat
There's also a novel called City by Clifford Simak (I think that's the author) that carried the theme to its logical conclusion.

And the first thing we need to think of is that we don't more people in this country, we need less. With some realignment of useful duties.

34 posted on 06/06/2016 3:52:09 PM PDT by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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To: MeganC

That is what Skynet asked.


35 posted on 06/06/2016 3:53:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: familyop

“global, overly centralized production will end soon. How? That will be a surprise. Give it six years if that long.”

Oh come on and be a sport. Just among us, do tell. What is going to bring down the centralized production model within six years? 3D printing?

I think it likely that manufacturing will decentralize due to robotics, but expect it to take longer.

China would probably be hardest hit by a six year conversion.


36 posted on 06/06/2016 3:53:40 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: plain talk

The big high tech industry will be programming and repairing the robots.


37 posted on 06/06/2016 3:54:24 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: plain talk
I'm still waiting for my flying car!


38 posted on 06/06/2016 3:54:31 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: roadcat

Bring in the Scoops!
Soylent Green - how did a 1973 B film so presciently depict metro life in 2022?

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/mediaviewer/rm3872838144

RE: “the rest will be protesting and destroying stuff”


39 posted on 06/06/2016 4:03:29 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

With floods of H1Bs probably and sadly.


40 posted on 06/06/2016 4:06:16 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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