Re:I invented Roomba and assure you, robots won’t take over ...
by snowwrestler on Friday May 08, 2020 @03:23PM
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> Automation will eat everything, it's just a matter of time.
> Platitudes like these give false hopes to workers who should be training and preparing for the next phase of industry
These seem incompatible to me. If automation will eat "everything," what exactly is the next phase of industry that we should all be preparing for? What's left after everything has been eaten?
My resolution to this conundrum is: automation will not actually eat everything. It's not like automation is a new concept; we started automating things over 100 years ago, and contrary to fears back then and along the way, automation drove tremendous job creation. There are far more human beings with well-paying jobs (even in May 2020) than there were 100 hundred years ago.
> Platitudes like these give false hopes to workers who should be training and preparing for the next phase of industry
These seem incompatible to me. If automation will eat "everything," what exactly is the next phase of industry that we should all be preparing for? What's left after everything has been eaten?
My resolution to this conundrum is: automation will not actually eat everything. It's not like automation is a new concept; we started automating things over 100 years ago, and contrary to fears back then and along the way, automation drove tremendous job creation. There are far more human beings with well-paying jobs (even in May 2020) than there were 100 hundred years ago.