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Job Automation Continues Apace in the USA and India

posted by takyon on Wednesday February 10 2016, @03:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the efficiency-for-you dept.

Robotron writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday February 10 2016, @04:33PM

    by khallow (3766) on Wednesday February 10 2016, @04:33PM (#302232) Journal

    The idea is efficiency.

    Efficiency only gets you a little improvement. Technology innovation is vastly more effective. For example, a person with a shovel working as efficiently as they can will never move as much dirt as a bulldozer driver with two hour smoke breaks.