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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 VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:09PM
"but but other things can open up as that happens."
Build it and they will come. Same idea with graduating from university. A total conceptual disconnect between what would be really nice if only it were true, and reality.
If you really wanna degree in english lit or a PHD in chemistry, thats OK. Sure we produce 10 times as many as we have jobs for them, but they'll find something to do. Same concept with fire all the laborers.
Let them eat cake, like what bad could possibly come from eating delicious cake?
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:45PM
>Let them eat cake...
When unbaling a traditional straw bale it comes apart in matted layers, with each layer being known as a cake of straw. Puts that famous saying in an entirely different light, one far more consistent with the situational realities. She wasn't saying "let them eat sugary confections", she was saying "let them eat straw".
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:55PM
True but doesn't actually change this specific argument. "Ah well don't worry they'll find something to do" You know, like using 3-d printers to make guillotines and molotovs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @11:06PM
More and more of these people are occupying unused land and growing food there.
Years before Karl Marx published, a fellow named Henry George had the crazy idea that the only assets that should be taxed were *idle* assets. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [dissidentvoice.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 07 2014, @09:42PM
Wait, are you saying the cake is a lie?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Wednesday October 08 2014, @10:20AM
She was saying no such thing, there are no straws in the French original [wikipedia.org], only brioche [wikipedia.org].
And of course she didn't speak English…
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