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posted by girlwhowaspluggedout on Tuesday March 04 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
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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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:12PM

    by bucc5062 (699) on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:12PM (#10920)

    "Long. Fucking. Live. America." Yep, that about sums it up these days. Don't forget the variation on a theme; aging middle income STEM educated mind one days gets handed a slip of paper that says, all the work you did, all that education, we think it's now worth shit, have a nice day.

    Now this person, who had worked hard to build a decent, comfortable, but not wealthy life looks for work only to find no one wants him/her any more. Tries to get reeducated, but can't afford the cost. Slowly the savings go, slowly the cuts are made, slowly the decent into poverty occurs til one day the man or woman wakes up to discover that just having that minimum wage is the last line holding him or her together.

    While at the same time companies wonder why consumers aren't buying as much product anymore. It couldn't be because they shit on the same people that actually bought their crap.

    God. Help. America. for its Government sure is hell bent on doing nothing save speed the downward progress.

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  • (Score: 1) by HiThere on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:47PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:47PM (#10944) Journal

    FWIW, just TRY living on a "minimum wage job". If you're young, energetic, and healthy it's barely tolerable. Once you get past that...

    OTOH, assuming the debt burden of a college education, and trying to live on a minimum wage job...you understand why they maneuvered to get those loans declared immune from bankruptcy protection. Not only will you never get out from under, the debt burden will keep increasing even if you attempt to pay it off. You need a high paying job to pay those off, so those who get one don't dare scruple over privacy or legal rights. (Was that intentional? No evidence. Is it NOW intentional? Yes.)

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