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Foxconn Planning To Hire 1 Million Robots
- joshfraser 15y agoI'm always torn when I read things like this. I tend to be pro-innovation and take the approach that if you don't take advantage of technology, someone else will. But when I read stories like this I can't help but wonder where all those people will go. What will their next job be? As technologists, what is our responsibility to them (if any)?
- nextparadigms 15y agoThe problem is not that it's happening at all, it's that it's happening in a relatively short period of time for a lot of people, and that time period will keep shrinking in the future. I think Governments could help here by spurring entrepreneurship in the country, and also by having nation-wide free training problems for jobs are "are the future" and are in high-demand. It should alleviate the transition.
- ColinWright 15y agoPrevious submissions of this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830614 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830614 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827882 <- This has over 100 comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827861