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Why ? As automation and robotization increase it seems eminently reasonable that a typical working career would be smaller (working less every week, or less yea

• PunchTornado 7y ago
  where is this automation and robotization? because I see it only in the news and from Elon Musk who was saying 5 years ago than in 2 years self driving cars will be everywhere. we don't even have robots that can clean a carpet properly in my house. each one of them sucks.
  • XMPPwocky 7y ago
    > we don't even have robots that can clean a carpet properly in my house. Have you got a vacuum cleaner?
  • lightgreen 7y ago
    Uber is an example of automation and robotization: taxi company phone operator is replaced by mobile app. Ticket machine at the train station is an another example of automation and robotization. Online courses instead of teachers, classes and books is also an example. Computerized air traffic control is also it. Trains using rails more efficiently because computers instead of signals for humans is also it. Bike and scooter rental in many cities with mobile app instead of taxis and bike renting human services is it. Software (instead of a manager) which decides how many apples, bananas and peaches this particular grocery store needs today is automation and robotization. And so on. Automation and robotization doesn’t necessarily mean human-like robots doing housekeeping.
    • PunchTornado 7y ago
      those are small examples with a few thousands job loses. they're already here and you can't see an impact in unemployment because of them. + I'm sure they actually created some jobs in IT. I'm talking about massive job loses because of automatization. Nothing like that happened or is on the horizont.