So what are you going to be doing with all the spare time you will be having?

[Gunner Asch]

http://www.wimp.com/humansapply/


--
"Living in the United States now is like being a Tampon.
We're in a great place, just at a bad time."

[Winston_Smith]

Post by Gunner Asch
http://www.wimp.com/humansapply/

Script at:
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply

[StarDust]

Post by Gunner Asch
http://www.wimp.com/humansapply/
--
"Living in the United States now is like being a Tampon.
We're in a great place, just at a bad time."

Funny, last 25 years all the cars I owned had cruise controls and very rarely used it.
So this self driving car, going to be another expensive gadget to add to cars?
Now days roads are so congested, not sure I would trust the computers decision 100%.
Same with GPS, pretty good, but.... when it tells me take a right here, when it's a one way street - you know what I mean! LOL!

[Edward A. Falk]

Post by Gunner Asch
http://www.wimp.com/humansapply/

Executive summary: Robots are taking our jobs.

Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and everybody
else become unemployed.

I don't know what the fix is.

I did read an interesting science fiction story once. One of the
characters came from a planet where almost everything was automated and
the entire population lived a life of wealth and leisure. The way they
did it was by forcing the corporations to issue dividend-paying stock
to every single person displaced by automation. Eventually the entire
population were stockholders. The people who created the technology
were still richer than everybody else, but nobody was poor.

[Stormin Mormon]

Post by Edward A. Falk
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and everybody
else become unemployed.
I don't know what the fix is.
I did read an interesting science fiction story once. One of the
characters came from a planet where almost everything was automated and
the entire population lived a life of wealth and leisure. The way they
did it was by forcing the corporations to issue dividend-paying stock
to every single person displaced by automation. Eventually the entire
population were stockholders. The people who created the technology
were still richer than everybody else, but nobody was poor.

I'll be working as a robot repair mechanic.

[Winston_Smith]

Post by Stormin Mormon

Post by Edward A. Falk
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and everybody
else become unemployed.
I don't know what the fix is.
I did read an interesting science fiction story once. One of the
characters came from a planet where almost everything was automated and
the entire population lived a life of wealth and leisure. The way they
did it was by forcing the corporations to issue dividend-paying stock
to every single person displaced by automation. Eventually the entire
population were stockholders. The people who created the technology
were still richer than everybody else, but nobody was poor.

I'll be working as a robot repair mechanic.

In a way you are. At one time the employment was to go cut ice blocks
from lakes, etc in the winter, transport them to insulated warehouses,
and then take them to homes and businesses to put in the icebox.

Refrigeration has replaced all that human labor that with machinery.
You get to repair the machine when it breaks. Maybe install a new
"robot" from time to time.

As one guy, you have replaced numbers of laborers, teams of horses,
and dedicated buildings.

[rbowman]

Post by Edward A. Falk
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and everybody
else become unemployed.

I found that in the high school library in the early '60s and it made quite
an impression particularly since it was Troy High School, aka Ilium. GE
Schenectady was alive and well and it wasn't hard to see where Vonnegut got
his inspiration.

It was particularly apposite since I was on the path to an engineering
career and it made me think about the implications.

Last time I was back in that area was in 2004; the technicians were hiding
but the Reeks and Wrecks were out in force.

[F. George McDuffee]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:56:25 -0600, rbowman

Post by rbowman

Post by Edward A. Falk
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and everybody
else become unemployed.

I found that in the high school library in the early '60s and it made quite
an impression particularly since it was Troy High School, aka Ilium. GE
Schenectady was alive and well and it wasn't hard to see where Vonnegut got
his inspiration.
It was particularly apposite since I was on the path to an engineering
career and it made me think about the implications.
Last time I was back in that area was in 2004; the technicians were hiding
but the Reeks and Wrecks were out in force.

===================
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

[news13]

Post by rbowman

Post by Edward A. Falk
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and
everybody else become unemployed.

I found that in the high school library in the early '60s and it made
quite an impression particularly since it was Troy High School, aka
Ilium. GE Schenectady was alive and well and it wasn't hard to see where
Vonnegut got his inspiration.
It was particularly apposite since I was on the path to an engineering
career and it made me think about the implications.
Last time I was back in that area was in 2004; the technicians were
hiding but the Reeks and Wrecks were out in force.

We've passed the stage wherre automation will take jobs. Now they are
working on the automation of the thinking stage and humans will become
surplus.

[F. George McDuffee]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:32:22 +0000 (UTC), news13

Post by news13

Post by rbowman

Post by Edward A. Falk
Kurt Vonnegut predicted this in his novel "Player Piano". In the age of
automation, the people who make the automatons become rich and
everybody else become unemployed.

I found that in the high school library in the early '60s and it made
quite an impression particularly since it was Troy High School, aka
Ilium. GE Schenectady was alive and well and it wasn't hard to see where
Vonnegut got his inspiration.
It was particularly apposite since I was on the path to an engineering
career and it made me think about the implications.
Last time I was back in that area was in 2004; the technicians were
hiding but the Reeks and Wrecks were out in force.

We've passed the stage wherre automation will take jobs. Now they are
working on the automation of the thinking stage and humans will become
surplus.

Looks like the next big thing is autonomous vehicles. Most
likely commercial to start as this is where the big payback
is. Military is known to be looking at autonomous tanks and
drones (as to remotely operated). Another reasonably well
paid sector on the weigh out, i.e. truck/bus drivers, train
engineers and pilots.
http://tinyurl.com/na8uga9
http://tinyurl.com/kqlmgfz
http://tinyurl.com/kqrleux

"Big Data" and quantum leaps in Artificial Intelligence are
thinning the ranks of middle management, and soon
translators and programmers.
http://tinyurl.com/k8b3ufj
http://tinyurl.com/pnkewrt