Business is getting the data, when are we going to wakeup??

[CK_John]

The World’s Workers Have Bigger Problems Than a Robot Apocalypse
Work may eventually be automated out of existence, but first, deal with labor shortages and “skills mismatch.”
By Peter Coy
June 22, 2017, 2:11 PM EDT



The world’s workers seem to be in a bad spot: A recent study found that each new industrial robot displaces six employees. Automation is on the rise in fields from radiology to volleyball coaching. Workers in poorer manufacturing-reliant nations are especially vulnerable, it’s said, because their jobs could soon be done by robots. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the new book Homo Deus, speculates in a recent Bloomberg View column about the rise of a huge, embittered “useless class” living on the dole.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-22/the-world-s-workers-have-bigger-problems-than-a-robot-apocalypse

[DK504]

1. Just because we can make something doesn't necessarily mean we should make it.

Robots miss what only human eyes can catch, they have no intuition or suspicions guy feeling about things. How is that a good thing.

The level of sophistication needed for them to even file papers is a step we are far, far from achieving.

[CK_John]

2. By point being we have a big problem coming at us, and we are total focused on past

problems.

I doubt 10 politicians in the Congress have any idea what UBI means.

[Initech]

3. I swear, our corporate overlords won't be happy untli we're all enslaved by Skynet.

[dawg]

4. Robots make great workers.

Too bad they make lousy customers.