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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: 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_