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: 1) by HiThere on Tuesday March 04 2014, @08:25PM
To be fair, that's just artists, and there are other jobs in music. So it's not at extreme as you are suggesting. But there's definitely a lot fewer than there were in 1913...probably by multiple thousands. (In 1913 there was generally at least one professional musician in every town or large village. Cities would have many more.) And there were many more small towns then than there are now.
OTOH, recording engineers, clerks in music stores (do they still exist?), etc. aren't counted as artists, even though they earn their living in the "music industry".
So I don't believe that you can trust his figures WRT number of jobs. They are too exclusive. But he's pointing in the way things are going. (Recording engineers are being de-skilled now, and will be replaced soon, e.g., and "music shop clerks" have already been largely replaced by the internet.)
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(Score: 1) by cafebabe on Friday March 07 2014, @06:39PM
I considered supporting roles before I posted. In general, I'd say that they aren't equivalent. Consider: Would you rather be a talent scout in an audience or a musician playing to the audience? In a more extreme example, would you rather be a rapper with a record deal or a music store clerk?
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(Score: 1) by HiThere on Friday March 07 2014, @07:28PM
They are, however, jobs. Some of the jobs that pay(paid?) much more than the average artist earns. E.g., owner of a record store.
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