The "real" challenge technology presents isn't that it replaces workers, but rather displaces them.
The robots perform tasks that humans previously performed. The fear is that they are replacing human jobs, eliminating work in distribution centers and elsewhere in the economy. It is not hard to imagine that technology might be a major factor causing persistent unemployment today and threatening “more to come.”
Surprisingly, the managers of distribution centers and supply chains see things rather differently: in surveys they report that they can’t hire enough workers, at least not enough workers who have the necessary skills to deal with new technology. “Supply chain” is the term for the systems used to move products from suppliers to customers. Warehouse robots are not the first technology taking over some of the tasks of supply chain workers, nor are they even seen as the most important technology affecting the industry today.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/scarce-skills-not-scarce-jobs/390789/
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday April 29 2015, @07:52PM
-n.
Among the reasons I don't seek VC is that I have seen the smoking craters that resulted from "investors" who just wanted my employers to go public on wall street.
If your horizon is only a quarter away, how can you carry out a plan that takes five years to complete?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Freeman on Wednesday April 29 2015, @08:21PM
Have a string of quarter goals that fit within the five year plan. That wouldn't happen though as that would require planning and initiative.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"