In the not too distant future upwards of near 50% of current jobs could be automated. How does this affect everything? Revolution? Lounging on the beach while your robot works for you? It's a scary topic with no real solution as of yet. This is far into the future, but not that far either. Kinda scary but inevitable.
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Which would kinda suck. Not only are you responsible for yourself, but now you have a worthless, jobless robot sucking at your savings.
Yes, the machines will handle it.
Similar to the machine labor strike of 2054, during which they will be unethically passed up for upgrades to new, more powerful processors.
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A very scary conversation, and especially one for those already in IT who have a better understand of what's coming.. No job or career is safe, and almost everything can be automated in some aspect.
For instance, you now have a robot that can cook 3,000 meals for you. It's certainly not foolproof, still a work in progress. And who knows when it will reach consumers. But as a restaurant owner, how can you not go for this? Perfect meals, no time off, no alcoholic chefs going off the handle.
Or pharmacists. They already have a product that can merge all your pills into one and have it mailed to you on a regular basis. How long before pharmaceuticals are just dispensed like a vending machine and we don't need so many pharmacists?
What to do? I really don't know. Any career that involves human interaction and reasoning is probably safe (Sales, Law, etc.) and anything with a computer background is fine for now. I mean, someone will have to create, manage and fix these automated chefs and pill dispensers.. at least until we have a robot for that.
Again, very worried about this, more so for our children and such, but my hope is that this will just be a bigger version of the automobile in the 1900's. Plenty of horse-related jobs took a hit through the decades that followed. People just had to adjust. Instead of working on horses, people worked on cars.
For instance, you now have a robot that can cook 3,000 meals for you. It's certainly not foolproof, still a work in progress. And who knows when it will reach consumers. But as a restaurant owner, how can you not go for this? Perfect meals, no time off, no alcoholic chefs going off the handle.
Or pharmacists. They already have a product that can merge all your pills into one and have it mailed to you on a regular basis. How long before pharmaceuticals are just dispensed like a vending machine and we don't need so many pharmacists?
What to do? I really don't know. Any career that involves human interaction and reasoning is probably safe (Sales, Law, etc.) and anything with a computer background is fine for now. I mean, someone will have to create, manage and fix these automated chefs and pill dispensers.. at least until we have a robot for that.
Again, very worried about this, more so for our children and such, but my hope is that this will just be a bigger version of the automobile in the 1900's. Plenty of horse-related jobs took a hit through the decades that followed. People just had to adjust. Instead of working on horses, people worked on cars.
I recommend doing something with computers, yes. Programming, Analytics, Systems, Security, and yes Robotics and Nano-tech. Honestly, everyone should get on board to the best of your ability. I don't care what field your in, chances are your work is going to go through some sort of computer "revolution" before you retire, and those who can adapt will thrive, and those who can't will be in trouble.
It sounds doomsday-ish, and maybe it is. But it's just what I see working in IT. Better to be safe than sorry. I'm certainly going to steer my kids into technology unless they really can't stand it.
It sounds doomsday-ish, and maybe it is. But it's just what I see working in IT. Better to be safe than sorry. I'm certainly going to steer my kids into technology unless they really can't stand it.
It really is scary, no industry is safe. Looks like transportation and services may be the first to go. I have no idea how we deal with it either. Not too worried about my industry right now but even web development is being automated. My kid and their kids are the ones I really worry about.
So, like, children... only with discernible job skills and no laws against shuttering them in a closet for years at at time without food/fuel? Can my wife and I make said robot via sex? If not, when is that coming?
Robo hate crime is a very real thing my friend.
So is robot rape.
They call it "rape" for short.
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They call it "rape" for short.
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Robots aren't willing to pick vegetables, though.
I have a cousin who is a robot repairman. Apparently, he is very good at it and makes six figures a year.
My dad started as a welder for GM right out of Nam. They kept training him and he kept gaining skills. By the time he retired he was skilled trades in maintenance. Often it was fixing machines, but often it was programming robots. He retired about 5 yrs ago.
As a Physical Therapist, I can't see a robot taking over what I do, but I can certainly foresee it influencing what we do. Right now we are seeing more and more total joint replacements. I would imagine that in the future we are working with bionics......or machines making the paralyze walk (which is very close to happening by the way), etc.
As a Physical Therapist, I can't see a robot taking over what I do, but I can certainly foresee it influencing what we do. Right now we are seeing more and more total joint replacements. I would imagine that in the future we are working with bionics......or machines making the paralyze walk (which is very close to happening by the way), etc.
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IMO the next economic downturn will come with a lot of downsizing and humans will be replaced with automation of some sort. I'm not even talking about robots, I believe there is a lot out there right now that could replace multiple layers of management. Where I work, it seems like everyone's primary function is "putting together charts for management" . . . it's actually easier in most cases to pull data from it's native format into an interactive webpage than it is to create similar charts from excel. These are the kinds of things that I think of when people bring up this topic. Touch Screen McDonalds, self scanners at the grocery, etc are the super low hanging fruit . . . middle class report makers and information gatherers are still very low to the ground.
Another thing that is terrifying, is the number of employees of the big household name companies in 2015 . . . Google + Facebook + Uber + Tesla ~ 40000 employees.
If you have a backyard, plant some damned potatoes.
Another thing that is terrifying, is the number of employees of the big household name companies in 2015 . . . Google + Facebook + Uber + Tesla ~ 40000 employees.
If you have a backyard, plant some damned potatoes.
If we start relying on machines, we will be screwed when things start breaking. If a person quits a job they can be replaced in a matter of hours or a day or two. I am talking about the type of jobs that could be replaced by robots. If the robot breaks down, it could take days or possibly weeks to troubleshoot, order parts, repair, and test before it is back up and running. Imagine the domino effect it would cause. Not only does it hurt the manufacturer, but it hurts the shipper, distributors (if product goes to a middle man), more shippers, potentially stores, and then finally the consumer.
This isn't even factoring in when the machines take over and kill or enslave man like The Matrix, Terminator, and Maximum Overdrive. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
This isn't even factoring in when the machines take over and kill or enslave man like The Matrix, Terminator, and Maximum Overdrive. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Computers destroyed a lot of hourly secretarial jobs and created a huge workforce of salaried IT workers. Robots will destroy a huge workforce of hourly folks and create a huge workforce of engineers and coders. What technology hasn't been met with the bemoaning of the lost jobs? It's easy to see what we lose, but hard to imagine what we will gain. The people who adjust and continue to acquire new skills will always do fine. Those who want things to stay the way they've always been and who do not want to learn will get passed by and left behind. That has always happened too.
Service industry jobs, especially in the food industry are certainly a goner. A couple of fast food joints in my area have already installed self service ordering stations. You select what you want on a computer screen and pay at the terminal. The only person you might interact with is the one who calls out "order # 27". I could see the majority of retail moving this way as well.
Every job in the transportation industry from Bike messenger to Airline Pilot may be done in the next 15 years.
Manufacturing is has been going the way of the dinosaur for years, and it certainly isn't hard to imagine the majority of line workers today being out of jobs in another 10 years.
It is going to be strange, because not everyone has the skill to be an engineer or a coder. So, where do these people end up? Millions of desperate people running around with no options sounds like a recipe for disaster. Hopefully the virtual reality reality TV and the robot sex will be enough to keep them happy.
Every job in the transportation industry from Bike messenger to Airline Pilot may be done in the next 15 years.
Manufacturing is has been going the way of the dinosaur for years, and it certainly isn't hard to imagine the majority of line workers today being out of jobs in another 10 years.
It is going to be strange, because not everyone has the skill to be an engineer or a coder. So, where do these people end up? Millions of desperate people running around with no options sounds like a recipe for disaster. Hopefully the virtual reality reality TV and the robot sex will be enough to keep them happy.
You are not looking into the future when you say it could take days or weeks to repair robotics. Robotic repair will become more simplified in the future with the distinct possibility the robots will repair themselves. Similar to do a virus scan on your computer you are using.
That says more about the quality of food rather than the quality of the work put in to it.
If someone is eating at a place where robots are serving food, I bet that person is poor.
Once we perfect the thinking, feeling, and reasoning part of the robots and the robots are able to repair themselves and create other robots, we'll all be overthrown by a "race" of robots. There's not much use for the unfixable flaws of mankind when you can replace them with robots. I wish I could replace just about all my student employees with robots, they'd be a lot more reliable.
What about robots in the law enforcement field? How would that take off? I've seen the Will Smith movie about it, but have to imagine that's not likely. I think even if it were, we would still need human detectives to solve murders and things of that nature.
This is what we're going through tight now. The only winner is the Government and the 1%.
Yet, idiots will continue to blame the middle class till humans cease to exist.
Don't forget to vote!!!!!
Yet, idiots will continue to blame the middle class till humans cease to exist.
Don't forget to vote!!!!!
I'd welcome complete automation of my business right now. If I never had to deal, face to face, with another lazy employee or jackass customer again, I might become the happiest ******* on the planet.
Mass unemployment and jobs for only the highly skilled. The government will place some type of wage floor on the economy to attempt to keep the unskilled with a living wage. The higher cost of employees will just accelerate the problem.
They just shut them down. They are not paying them anyway or the person who got laid off in favor of the robot. Laying on the beach as CatDaddy said meant being dead. I don't know where he thinks he is going to get his money from. Robots cut jobs in favor on not having to pay you. Liberals, they just don't get it. That endless pot of money does not exist.
