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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 07 2014, @02:06PM
As a consumer, do you buy a good, well-built brand or a cheap knock-off?
That depends on how much money I have and time until re-use.
If I have little money then I buy cheap. If I have a decent amount of money I shop around a maybe buy the best there is. Even if I have the money I may still buy cheap. For example I trim the hedges in my front yard about every other year. I buy the elcheapo trimmer at harbor freight for 30 bucks and it lasts 10 years 5 uses I still come out ahead. If I did it every day I buy the bad ass one from lowes as I need it to last.
When you 'have money' your purchases become a risk/reward decision. When you have no money you always buy on price.
A good example is my wife. She is always buying the cheapest of cheap pens (but they are pretty). Then bitches about the quality. We are will be making a trip to a art/crafts store that has a good supply of drafting tools. It will cost 15+ dollars for 1 pen. But it will be a nice well put together pen. Though she may insist on a ball point. Which at that point we are back where we started.