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1950 - work is 9-5, but your free time will soon be liberated by machines! 2015 - work is 8-6, but machine processing time will soon be liberated by humans! 2
by olewhalehunter 11y ago
1950 - work is 9-5, but your free time will soon be liberated by machines!
2015 - work is 8-6, but machine processing time will soon be liberated by humans!
2016 - we cached your workflows and did enough analysis on it to extrapolate functionality, but best of luck in convincing your sociopolitical handlers of your relevancy
- icanhackit 11y agoAutomate an employment agency, the Human-Machine Interaction equivalent of dividing by zero.
- bitwize 11y agoI dunno, plenty of tech recruiters can be automated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10399680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10399680
- bendykstra 11y agoI don't think that is an accurate characterization. A time use study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston[1] found that the time a male worker spends at the workplace decreased from 51 hours in 1965 to 40 hours in 2003. The average male in 2003 spent most of that extra time on leisure activities. That's only one study, of course, but it squares with what I have consistently heard. Another study, which I can't find right now unfortunately, looked at leisure time enjoyed at the workplace. That would be a contradictory concept in 1965, but today, many people spend an hour per day or more reading, playing games or visiting social media sites. [1] http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/wp/wp2006/wp0602.pdf http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/wp/wp2006/wp0602.pdf
- Sven7 11y agoYou can come to all kinds of satisfying conclusions, when you ignore the fact that a lot of the productivity gains of the developed world comes of the backs of dirt cheap labor in the under developed world. It's a safe bet that, for the most part, the human in the loop computing is going to be built on the cheapest humans available.