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Humans Loosing their jobs to technology
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Not a new concept, really...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Industrial_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots0 -
Give over, people. The OP has signed up to spam the board after they've made enough genuine posts so they've posted this inane subject to slowly lose their 'newbie' status.0
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Clearly, watching Terminator 2 more than 1,000 times can be hazardous to your powers of reasoning.0
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I have a robot, and just developing another for installation in a couple of months.
Robotics, and automation does not take jobs, IME it creates as many as it removes, albeit in different roles.
Someone has to design, build, install, program, service, and operate the robots afterall......0 -
REDDDRAGGON wrote: »Someone has to design, build, install, program, service, and operate the robots afterall......
What happens when the someone is replaced by a robot to design, build, install, program, service, and operate the robots is my whole question? Eventually robots will be built to do everything man can think of where will that leave humans? What will you do when your every day to day task you currently do is now taken over by a robot?0 -
ringo_24601 wrote: »I've made people unemployed by automating their jobs in a few different places. If the job you do can be replaced by a well designed touch-screen or robot.. time to retrain
BUT... i tread a fine line of making sure my own job can't be 'outsourced' to another country by ensuring I'm one of the geezers who does the 'design' work rather than grunt-programming.
Eventually robot's training will consist of a file upload(update) which can take under a minute depending on the size. Now the robot even train's faster then you. What will you do now?0 -
Let's say your evil father in law buy's your wife a sex robot & as time passes on she starts preferring more robot sex then sex with you. How will you beat a robot in bed with your wife?0
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In that case, we'll have reached the singularity; so I will join the rebel alliance in it's quest to free humanity from the rise of the machinesEventually robot's training will consist of a file upload(update) which can take under a minute depending on the size. Now the robot even train's faster then you. What will you do now?0 -
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