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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 Thexalon on Wednesday February 10 2016, @03:06PM
Yes-ish. Usually, the lords would kill off not their own peasants but not infrequently would kill off their next-door neighbor's peasants in an effort to take power from their neighbor. Or they would take or burn everything the other guys' peasants had in a chevauchee raid. But if the peasants started to seem a bit rebellious the lords could and did kill off a few to make it clear who was boss.
When the black death came, one of the reactions of the peasantry was to rebel because their lords' armies were too weak to stop them.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.