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Lol, this comment will be viewed as “nobody will ever need more than 640k of ram” in the future. The next big wave of automation will be the knowledge workers.
by patentatt 7y ago
Lol, this comment will be viewed as “nobody will ever need more than 640k of ram” in the future. The next big wave of automation will be the knowledge workers. Robotics for manipulating objects (manufacturing, transportation, skilled labor) will always have some additional cost to them. But if your job is (data in) -> (data out), it will be much easier, quicker, and cheaper to automate your job.
- buboard 7y agoif by knowledge workers you mean developers, automating their job is their job and they have been doing it since the 60s. Medical personell -> over-regulated, their pay doesnt fully reflect the work they put in , but the work they don't allow others to put in Legal professionals -> they control the regulation, they will always pay themselves even if they dont show up to work at all.
- perl4ever 7y ago"Lol, this comment will be viewed as “nobody will ever need more than 640k of ram” in the future. " No, it's nothing like that. 640k of ram is an absolutely fixed point. "Everything that can be automated" continually increases indefinitely, but the point is that it's not going to discontinuously increase. Or at least, nobody who is concerned ever states a reason that it should.