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The future of work is medically enhanced ‘elite super-workers,’ report says
The Ladders ^
| August 9, 2017
| Monica Torres
Posted on 08/10/2017 6:23:31 AM PDT by C19fan
In the future, we will be competing against medically-enhanced workers who can work longer and harder than us. Artificial intelligence will make it easier to monitor our every move in the office. This may sound like science fiction, but it’s a likely reality, according to a new report by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ai; cyborg
Hitler was just ahead of his time.
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:23:31 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I recall predictions from the early 1990’s that the most productive workers of the next decade would all be taking SSRI’s like fluoxetine (prozac).
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:28:39 AM PDT
by
posterchild
(Science makes the Dr. see what is not, and prevents him from seeing what is clear to everyone else)
To: C19fan
Still waiting for my jet-pack and flying car.
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:31:14 AM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: C19fan
I’m more inclined to think that the future is in robotics.
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:31:17 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: DakotaGator
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:34:43 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
To: C19fan
Ol’ Marse gwine be real happy ‘bout dat!
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:35:03 AM PDT
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: C19fan
Genetically engineer a new race of slaves...
Sounds like the democrat base...
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:37:53 AM PDT
by
3boysdad
(The very elect.)
To: Dubh_Ghlase
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:41:00 AM PDT
by
4Runner
To: Mr Ramsbotham
I’m more inclined to think that the future is in robotics. Certainly it's quicker to develop a robot ideally suited to a specific task than to start a genetically modified baby from scratch and grow it to working age.
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posted on
08/10/2017 6:54:48 AM PDT
by
null and void
(ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
To: C19fan
Wasn’t this the plot to H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”?
To: null and void
The question is, which is *cheaper*? You have to manufacture robots. Humans have a proven enthusiasm for manufacturing more of themselves.
To: C19fan
You mean.....like Major League Baseball?
To: Flatus I. Maximus
EBT, Section 8, “free” medical care, WIC and a thousand other expenses for life vs the one time manufacturing costs?
Which is cheaper?
You tell me...
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posted on
08/10/2017 7:20:03 AM PDT
by
null and void
(ObamaCare, giving the government the power of life and death over Americans since March 23, 2010...)
To: C19fan
Well since every drug currently available to “enhance” performance ends up destroying the subject in the long term I’m not going to lose much sleep over this.
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posted on
08/10/2017 7:24:09 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
To: null and void
This is an interesting legal frontier, isn't it? Will GMO post-humans be considered legally human? If you can go full Blade Runner or Brave New World and engineer sufficiently humanlike creatures that are mature enough to go to work at age 8 and programmed to die before they're 30, what will stop you from doing so? Morality? Maybe in the U.S. and U.K., but I doubt that would bother the Indonesians, Malaysians, or Chinese.
To: null and void
So when we’re all replaced by super human’s do we go on welfare too?
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posted on
08/10/2017 7:44:06 AM PDT
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
To: Keyhopper
No, we’ll be in trailers on a rez somewhere.
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posted on
08/10/2017 8:14:06 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Fai Mao
Go anywhere, we strap them on our backs...
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posted on
08/10/2017 8:40:47 AM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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