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Gartner’s crystal ball foresee an emerging ‘super class’ of technologies.
Gartner sees things like robots and drones replacing a third of all workers by 2025, and whether you want to believe it or not, is entirely your business. This is Gartner being provocative, as it is typically is, at the start of its major U.S. conference, the Symposium/ITxpo.
Smart machines are an emerging "super class" of technologies that perform a wide variety of work, both the physical and the intellectual kind, said Sondergaard. Machines, for instance, have been grading multiple choice for years, but now they are grading essays and unstructured text. This cognitive capability in software will extend to other areas, including financial analysis, medical diagnostics and data analytic jobs of all sorts, says Gartner.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691607/one-in-three-jobs-will-be-taken-by-software-or-robots-by-2025.html
What do you think of Gartner's predictions ? What will happen to all the phone sanitizers?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:20AM
Yup, they're only in disposable jobs because they're too lazy to take just a few classes at the local community college between their two jobs. it's so much easier to feel vistimized and entitled, than to actually pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But no they're not lazy enough to avoid having more children than they can afford, and then they cry about needing to earn a living wage...
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:07AM
Man have sex drive. Woman refuse abortion. Couple has to hunt for income and can't refuse bad offers nor provide the time for retraining. Stuck! Trap!
If getting children was more along the lines of artificial insemination procedure where both partners has to make a commitment before any biological stuff happens. Perhaps many "oops" could be avoided.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:05PM
Like buying a cat. At least the commitment part, not the insemination part. Probably. Anyway the world is not running out of crazy cat ladies with 175 cats in her house so I don't think this is necessarily a silver bullet. Might help though, true.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @02:45PM
License parenthood?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:32PM
(continuing on my Poe's Law rant)
Well yeah, go ahead and overtax my god-given money to provide people with free contraception so they don't have to be responsible!
It's not like a home delivery costs money, and then they can give the baby up for adoption and get right back to retraining for a better-paying job, having enjoyed a few days of strangely mandatory free rest (free as in not losing your job, you shouldn't on top of it get paid to rest if you didn't save enough vacation). Why would society enable behaviors that are beyond my perception of proper?
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 07 2014, @04:24PM
I think it boils down to that what other people do will affect your life regardless whether you like it or not. If these kids were left to their own devices like they are in some 3rd world countries. They would ravage and pilferage the surroundings. On the larger scale there isn't resources to keep 10 billion or so people happy on this planet. And most certainly not if they desire a decent standard of living.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 07 2014, @04:32PM
Technically, there are enough resources for 10B people, but if we want their children to have anything livable to grow up in, they need to learn to share a lot better and waste a lot less. But that's communism, and we know that doesn't work, because we took a wall down 25 years ago...
(my two previous comments were sarcastic, that's why I made a Poe's Law reference)
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 07 2014, @09:38PM
Jeeze, 25 years ago? I feel old...
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek