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posted by girlwhowaspluggedout on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the ya-tvoy-sluga-ya-tvoy-rabotnik dept.

regift_of_the_gods writes:

"A study that was published last year by two Oxford researchers predicted that 47 percent of US jobs could be computerized within the next 20 years, including both manual labor and high cognition office work. The Oxford report presented three axes to show what types of jobs were relatively safe from being routed by robots and software; those requiring high levels of social intelligence (public relations), creativity (scientist, fashion designer), or perception and manipulation (surgeon) were less likely to be displaced.

This further obsolescence of jobs due to automation may have already begun. The Financial Times describes an emerging wave of products and services from algorithmic-intensive, data-rich tech startups that will threaten increasing numbers of jobs including both knowledge and blue collar workers. The lead example is Kensho, a startup founded by ex-Google and Apple engineers that is building an engine to estimate the impact of real or hypothetical news items on security prices, with questions posed in a natural language. Specialist knowledge workers in many other fields, including law and medicine, could also be at risk. At lower income levels, the dangerous are posed by increasingly agile and autonomous robots, such as those Amazon uses to staff some of its fulfillment warehouses.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by buswolley on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:52PM

    by buswolley (848) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:52PM (#10694)

    As demand drops from lack of income of the starving masses, there will be two options before us to move the economy: 1) the government issues a guaranteed income, or 2) build robots to consume products

    The sane would choose the former.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by githaron on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:01PM

    by githaron (581) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:01PM (#10704)

    The government is not the only form of communal ownership. You could have extended family/friends coming together to purchase the robotics necessary to sustain themselves. You could also have clubs that work similarly.

    • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:08PM

      by buswolley (848) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:08PM (#10710)

      Agreed.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by NecroDM on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:05PM

    by NecroDM (376) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:05PM (#10707)

    Or a third option:
    3) build robots to consume the starving masses (the soylent processing bots aka "om nom nom" bots)

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:41PM

      by VLM (445) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:41PM (#10729)

      We already have drones killing wedding parties because they hate us because we use drones to kill wedding parties because ... recurse infinitely.

      Also an automated SCADA'd CCTV equipped prison is kinda a big immobile robot.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by MikeRo on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:05PM

    by MikeRo (1436) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @04:05PM (#10709)

    For the insane choice, you need to close the loop. Build robots to mine bitcoins then those robots can consume products.