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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.
(Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Tuesday March 04 2014, @06:06PM
I usually/mostly agree that it does, but that doesn't mean that intrinsic value is necessarily greater than the cost of the education; if it's not, it seems like it is a bad thing.
And I know this will sound horribly elitist, but...
When I look at how dissatisfied I (two B.S.es and a M.S.) am (and others with comparable education usually are) with the state of the world in general, and my country and community specifically, and at how content less-educated people tend to be, I think I see a trend, and it makes me not-so-sure about this "fuller, richer life" business. (Yes, I'm well aware I could be seeing a trend where none exists.) I'm actually inclined to believe not that the education is the cause of the dissatisfaction, but that they're both effects of a common cause. Still, sometimes I wonder....
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday March 05 2014, @05:40AM
Elitist is thinking that your own self, in the context of a sense of self, is better than anyone else and entitled to *something* to a greater degree than anyone else.
You don't sound like that at all. Being born with a mind and pondering all the great questions of life, the universe, and everything is not elitism either, but probably an emergent property whereby the most intelligent are the most tortured and malcontent. Often that malcontent aspect can evolve quite quickly into the super villains like Hitler that wish to alter the world to their image, but I believe far more often it is the man that develops the squeezable ketchup bottle because he is so fucking pissed at getting ketchup all over his dining table for the last time.
I don't believe that emergent property is an accident either, and fundamentally contributes to the progress of humanity as a whole. The source of that emergent property is of course greatly debated. God, simple causality, His Great Noodly Appendage, you pick.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.