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from the with-a-capital-T-which-rhymes-with-D-and-that-stands-for-Drones dept.
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: 1) by lizardloop on Tuesday October 07 2014, @12:19PM
I think your large scale ghetto is the more likely option. If you want an example of it look at the villages around England that are former pit villages. They essentially exist on welfare. Generations growing up on tax payer money because most of the people there are too stupid and lazy to leave and find work elsewhere. They are grim places marred my large gangs of feral youth. When people are bored they tend to have sex a lot and not particularly worry about how many offspring they create. I'm just hoping I can get on the upper curve of all this and find a nice gated community with big automated security bots to keep everyone else out.
Either that or I'll go full hippy and move to a camp site in a forest somewhere.