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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: 3, Insightful) by anubi on Thursday April 30 2015, @01:15AM
only because we don't organize.
We always end up voting for either tweedle-dee or tweedle-dum, both of which are owned by the aristocracy.
We won't organize and stand behind an independent who will shake things up... and back him up with recall elections for any bureaucrat that gives him backtalk.
We still have the power to have a lot of bad law thrown out, along with the politicians that passed it.
But we won't do it.
And they will.
Organization.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday April 30 2015, @04:03AM
People are dumb and predictable. A person can be smart, but people are dumb.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek