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Portentous changes to the work economies of India and the USA due to job automation by machines and robots continue to make headlines. Varieties of hardware and software automation are seeing implementation burgeon in both countries, as companies seek efficiency by replacing humans with machines. Wage erosion in areas previously unaffected by automation - including varieties of programming - is getting commoner while new, albeit highly specialized, engineering jobs are created. Both articles encourage educational changes mindful of these realities, though how colleges either side of the world can adapt to the blistering pace of automation is unclear.
The latest tranche of job automation news comes hot on the heels of Davos' prediction that machine automation will result in a net loss globally of over 5 million jobs prior to 2020.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Wednesday February 10 2016, @06:14AM
what's going to happen is that product design software will have accompanying software that automates the design of manufacturing process using existing manufacturing systems. since it knows what you want to make, it will make the manufacturing layout and tell each robot what to do. the result will be turnkey operation using software alone. this new system will result in laying off everyone in manufacturing except some people to oversee the bots. that's how the economic crisis will begin.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday February 10 2016, @01:38PM
Isn't this basically outsourced mfgr, if you think of China like a magic black box?
Seeed studio is cool, and I've blown money there, but hasn't entirely taken over small hobby electronics. I'm not even sure their growth rate is keeping up with the market.
If treating them like a black box doesn't work, treating a new "real" black box like existing black boxes probably won't work any better.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Wednesday February 10 2016, @09:31PM
Isn't this basically outsourced mfgr, if you think of China like a magic black box?
yes, the difference it is significantly faster and less expensive.
If treating them like a black box doesn't work, treating a new "real" black box like existing black boxes probably won't work any better.
the software i'm talking about will use warehouses and machines that reconfigure themselves for the desired task and throughput. since it's all automated, it will run 24/7/365.