March 16, 2015
THE END OF LABOR:
What happens when robots replace all of our jobs? (Robert Reich, MARCH 16, 2015, CS Monitor)
The ratio of producers to customers continues to plummet. When Facebook purchased "WhatsApp" (the messaging app) for $19 billion last year, WhatsApp had 55 employees serving 450 million customers.A friend, operating from his home in Tucson, recently invented a machine that can find particles of certain elements in the air.He's already sold hundreds of these machines over the Internet to customers all over the world. He's manufacturing them in his garage with a 3D printer.So far, his entire business depends on just one person -- himself.New technologies aren't just labor-replacing. They're also knowledge-replacing.The combination of advanced sensors, voice recognition, artificial intelligence, big data, text-mining, and pattern-recognition algorithms, is generating smart robots capable of quickly learning human actions, and even learning from one another.If you think being a "professional" makes your job safe, think again.
On the bright side, jobs sucked.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2015 6:49 PM
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