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Technology is exploding at a pace we've never seen before. Sure there will be a lot of new jobs, but we're on the verge of being able to wipe out entire industr
by leesec 8y ago
Technology is exploding at a pace we've never seen before. Sure there will be a lot of new jobs, but we're on the verge of being able to wipe out entire industries. It will be like the industrial revolution except much much faster and even greater impact.
- harryh 8y agoI hope so! The industrial revolution was responsible for a greater increase in human wealth than almost any other even in human history. We are all tremendously better off getting to live after it instead of before it.
- zwkrt 8y agoIt's living during it that is the tumultuous part. There was an article posted here recently arguing that luddites were not irrational, they were out of a job with no recourse. It might be that every few hundred years we need to totally shit on a generation to make the future a better place, but being that generation is rather bad luck.
- ashelmire 8y agoWe’ve been working on eliminating retail workers entirely. We’ve run into snags though; machines are poorly designed, difficult to modify, etc, which keeps humans working. One day it might seem like it happened overnight but we’ve been working on this for decades. We’ve been working on self driving cars and drones for decades too. Maybe we’ll actually finish self driving cars. Maybe we won’t. If we do, that’s a lot of jobs lost.