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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 aclarke on Tuesday October 07 2014, @01:13PM
Imagine if all those out-of-work fry cooks and cab drivers were given a guaranteed basic income, enough to make ends meet. Many of them might actually be happy to sit at home all day, smoke weed, and watch "Ow my Balls". In this case, a job they might have otherwise gone out for would be available to someone else who actually wants it. Others might take the opportunity to go back to school, start a new business, be a better parent, or whatever.
No solution is perfect, but the more I think and read about Basic Income [wikipedia.org], the more I like it.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Tuesday October 07 2014, @09:47PM
A guaranteed basic income needs to be accompanied by reproductive restrictions in order to be sustainable, otherwise the unproductive portion of society will expand exponentially.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by aclarke on Wednesday October 08 2014, @12:50PM
Have there been any research or studies that show this? I'm not aware of any. In fact, if anything Mincome [wikipedia.org] showed that young people were more likely to use the money to go to school. Additionally, it's been shown again and again that as societies tend to become wealthier, they generally tend to have fewer children.