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The Next Industrial Revolution Could Put Millions Out of Work ... Just as every other ones
by eitaporra 10y ago
The Next Industrial Revolution Could Put Millions Out of Work
... Just as every other ones
- throw20160915 10y agoWhat comes after automated knowledge work?
- eternalban 10y agoRelatively dumb human nodes in an AI mesh. We're already seeing this with captcha-crunching porn surfers. So not exactly batteries for the matrix but rather the soft organic bits that come factory equipped with some excellent bio-hardware [& -software].
- Ant1jr 10y agoInterestingly enough, that was sort of the original plot of the Matrix: using humans as a giant supercomputer. It was scrapped in favor of batteries because at the time, it was a more understandable concept for most people despite being less plausible.
- wooter 10y agothe luddites never learn
- DonaldFisk 10y agoThe Luddites were highly skilled workers. If computer systems do most of the thinking, and users don't understand how they work, I'm concerned that people will lose those cognitive skills. We're already seeing this happen with calculators (mental arithmetic) and satellite navigation systems (orienteering/navigation). Driving a car and learning a foreign language might be next. Some, probably most, people will give up, while the rest will pursue the gradually dwindling number of things computers can't do. So it could well be that most people, rather than the new Luddites who will try to keep the old skills alive, might never learn, because they don't need to.
- criddell 10y agoI hope it does. I don't want to have to work. I'd be much happier if I could take next summer off and go tour Scotland and Ireland or spend this winter skiing in Vermont.
- Nostromov 10y agoUh-huh and who's gonna pay for that. :)
- ryandrake 10y agoThe people who went from being filthy rich to insanely rich from making all of those jobs unnecessary? Assuming we maintain our democratic system and people vote in their best interests (I know, big assumptions), then there WILL eventually be a political solution if we continue down the road we're on.
- virmundi 10y agoAnd it's called Communism. Marx is right in this general sense. Now we'll see what happens when the consumer base is decimated too. Capitalist might have all of the infrastructure but no one can buy.
- douche 10y agoThe problem with stealing other people's stuff and redistributing it is you eventually run out of people that have stuff to steal.
- Nostromov 10y agoUm, ACTUALLY the Industrial Revolution is what gave birth to... Giving birth to a lot, to work in a factory.
- imglorp 10y agoI don't think this time is the same because of the scale and the cost accounting pressures that were not present last times. First: Drivers obviously: 10 million people. Fast food: 3 million. Walmart: 1.4 million. Etc. Secondly: offshoring (NAFTA and TPP) was never happening at the scale those treaties are indented to impart. These two things could decimate the US workforce if they're not contained.
- eitaporra 10y ago"I don't think this time is the same" its another big moto for industrial revolutions