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Automation could wipe out 375-800 million jobs globally in the next 13 years, including 16-54 million in the U.S. But don't worry, there's a new job waiting for you:
The McKinsey Global Institute cautions that as many as 375 million workers will need to switch occupational categories by 2030 due to automation.
[...] "The model where people go to school for the first 20 years of life and work for the next 40 or 50 years is broken," Susan Lund, a partner for the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of the report, told CNN Tech. "We're going to have to think about learning and training throughout the course of your career."
[...] "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund said. "Yes, work will be automated, [but] there will be enough jobs for everyone in most areas." The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing less risk from automation.
Also at Bloomberg.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @05:29PM (3 children)
But then, with ever more energy hungry machines on the planet, and the trend for renewable energy, maybe he will get a job at an electricity production treadmill. Solves three problems at once: Fights obesity as people do physical work again, gets people employed, and generates green energy as people don't consume fossil fuel (well, sort of depends on what they eat, of course). Yes, it's utterly boring. But give them a smartphone, and they will entertain themselves during work. ;-)
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:13PM
Pretty much the entire plot of Glenn Beck's Agenda 21 [amazon.com]. A few lucky folks got jobs tending the children (not the same ones with jobs gestating them).
I am a crackpot
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 30 2017, @07:32PM (1 child)
The energy produced by humans on treadmills is less than or equal to the energy they consume from food. Effectively the human becomes a biochemical machine to convert plant (or animal) matter to energy. Even if humans are permitted Big Macs to have some animal food matter, those beefs must be bred, raised and processed into burgers.
Perhaps the machines can engineer a similarly efficient biochemical machine without the need for puny, whiny, complaining, ungrateful, annoying, stupid humans -- and the problems that come with maintaining humans and their supporting infrastructure.
Even if you cut out humans as the middleman from converting plant matter into energy you still are losing efficiency. Ultimately that plant matter gets its energy from the sun. Cut out all the middlemen and go straight to the source. Solar panels to collect direct energy from nuclear fusion.
That solves more than three problems at once. No humans means nobody gets bored. No smartphones needed. BTW, the treadmill you describe sounds like an episode of Black Mirror, I think it was called Fifteen Million or something like that.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 30 2017, @11:26PM
I recently read a thing on how to do a cruelty-free/meatless Thanksgiving. [alternet.org]
It was mentioned that bacon is really hard to fake.
This was the suggestion: (Bacon Stretcher)
We've had multiple stories on the development of meat-flavored soybean patties with texture and it appears that that isn't far from commercial reality.
So, even livestock production seems to be about to wane.
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