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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 Wednesday October 08 2014, @11:27AM
"So how would the exchange of items of art work then?"
Barter is really old and archeology shows that pretty much everyone has decorated the heck out of everything until the industrial revolution arrived.
I mean, yeah, starving to death savages couldn't have time to engrave their stone axes or something, but it seems as soon as humans have a spare 15 minutes someone starts engraving swords and shields and housewares and tables its like freaking dwarf fortress out there in the pre-industrial world...
Realistically my ability to make money off electronics assembly post-capitalist era / neo feudalist era probably isn't too good. I'm no master carpenter but at least up to really high level apprentice quality so I'll make you a stack of axe handles if you'll give me a couple tons of raw wood, and I'll trade farm / garden tools and things (ranging from handles to entire wheelbarrows) to farmers for chow. I mean seriously, you can't expect someone who's specialty in life is detection and prevention of crop diseases or safely chopping down trees to season and carve wood? I assure you it would be a heck of a lot easier to chop down and hand over a couple extra trees or grow an extra ten baskets of potatoes than it would be for those guys to keep being experts in their field while also learning to be carpenters...