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Look at the disappearance of pink-collar jobs due to computerization and "do it yourself" that it enabled. There's lots of examples of whole career fields disa
by jleyank 2mo ago
Look at the disappearance of pink-collar jobs due to computerization and "do it yourself" that it enabled. There's lots of examples of whole career fields disappearing. The trick has always been to see whether and how things reappear.
- fragmede 2mo agoTravel agents come to mind for that. Bill Gates saw the future with and funded Expedia.com
- bentcorner 2mo agoDeleting career fields in and of itself is not a problem with technology, but when it's like the eye of sauron scouring workplaces and snapping jobs away (pardon the mixed universes), it starts to become a little alarming. University graduates are often considered min-bar for white-collar work hiring, so if it takes 4 years to train someone, how are people supposed to decide on a career path when it takes less time than that to completely alter the workplace? My daughter is entering her first year of nursing, a career path that she is greatly looking towards. Who says in 3 years that robotics companies don't actually deliver on their promises and completely up-end the care industry? While I think that unlikely, it's not like people aren't trying to automate nurses away.
- harvey9 2mo agoThe industry may be getting close to an NS-5 but the physical complexity of nursing means we would really prefer a Nexus-6.
- Rumple22Stilk 2mo agoThere is no tech created like this. This is a literal thinking machine. And it replaces other thinking machines. You.