I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is Rural America

Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ... by ianai on Friday November 11, 2016 @04:20AM (#12929148)

I'm thinking drones help maximize how much distance you can place between workers in some abstract way. Maybe there's a way to use all of our technology to make rural America more relevant. I know you could outsource call center stuff if broadband were more available.

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Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ... by threeseed on Friday November 11, 2016 @05:24AM (#12929427)

Call centres are the next industry to go. 5-10 years max.

Machine/Deep Learning is rapidly improving beyond anyone's expectations and you only have to look at Microsoft's recent advancements in speech recognition that match humans to see the disruption in action.

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Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ... by wcummings on Friday November 11, 2016 @09:13AM (#12930744)

>Call centres are the next industry to go. 5-10 years max.

"Bots" are the next gen automated phone menu.

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Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ... by douche on Friday November 11, 2016 @07:29AM (#12930008)

Working in a call center is less rewarding than digging ditches. It's a crushing, soulless form of employment, and it will be a great thing for the world when machine learning or AI or Watson can handle all that tier 1-type support.

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Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ... by ianai on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:41PM (#12939763)

And people will instead do what, exactly?

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Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ... by douche on Saturday November 12, 2016 @06:39PM (#12940849)

That is the great question...

Human beings are becoming increasingly irrelevant as labor.

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