Technology To Automate A Third Of Jobs Over Next 20 Years

[arel00]

Sooner or later people will realize unemployment is a normal tendency in a technological world... but apparently not yet.

[Acidbaron]

If you see it coming you know it's time to invest in yourself again and swap, we don't have the luxury of older generations anymore to be stuck doing the same job for majority of the time.

I started out as an Electrician build up funds and am now going for an IT degree. What people don't realize is that big companies already slowed down the automization process to save jobs this won't last forever.

[Deleted]

I could see it backfire real bad one day.
invest into automation so that machines do the same work more effectively while not requiring as big of an investment as your typical manual labor worker.
End up with more products that dont sell because people who would've bought them previously have no money because they lost their jobs to machines.
All this excess production now costs more because of recycle/disposal of spoiled food.

At the end of the day someone has to give work to masses unless you want homeless zombie apocalypse.

[Nakura Chambers]

One of my two jobs (cashier at a retail store) will almost certainly be replaced. Good thing I don't plan on working as a cashier my whole life.

[Collegeguy]

Considering every time I speak to a machine on the phone I repeatedly say... representative... respresentative to talk to a real person, I don't think I would really like it.

I find automation to be much of the time a waste of time for the consumer and less of a good service.

[GennGreymane]

feels good to be a lawyer. gonna take a bit longer, to replace us muwhaha

[Deleted]

I could see it backfire real bad one day.
invest into automation so that machines do the same work more effectively while not requiring as big of an investment as your typical manual labor worker.
End up with more products that dont sell because people who would've bought them previously have no money because they lost their jobs to machines.
All this excess production now costs more because of recycle/disposal of spoiled food.

At the end of the day someone has to give work to masses unless you want homeless zombie apocalypse.

I have to agree. There is a point where automation. causing losses in available job posts, would kill the purchasing power. Less purchasing power = less money spent = less the companies that aumated things earn. All in moderation

[Deleted]

Just realized something.
What is easier to replace?

A faulty human worker?
OR
A faulty 1 ton of complex machinery?

[Endus]

Automation is almost always for the better. Lost jobs end up being created elsewhere, in other industries. We've been stepping up automation for literally centuries, and yet unemployment hasn't been steadily rising, precisely because the labor market adapts.

The jobs being replaced are just becoming as archaic as, say, blacksmithing, or saddlemaking. You might find employ in niche cottage industries, but you're no longer a central industry society revolves around.

[Artarist]

I'd rather order from a computer at fast-food places. At least when my order gets fucked up, I know it was my own fault.

I ate at a chilis the other day and they had these little screens at each table you could order food and drinks from and play some games on.
Also you could pay your check from it.

[Fahrenheit]

My job (Elec. Engineer) is safe for the immediate future and probably through my career, but someday sure, I mean I don't see why not.

I think by 2050 or there about most governments will need some form of guaranteed basic minimum income due to this. Hopefully at that point we're also making inroads into creating something starting to resemble a post scarcity world.

[Kalis]

In London this figure rises to 51 per cent of jobs.

While jobs identified as low or no risk jobs include skilled management; financial services...legal services...the arts and media...

Virtually everyone I know in London fits into one of those categories, so at least me and mine will be fine. Hey ho, times change.

[Adam Jensen]

A robot capable of loading luggage onto an airplane? Marshalling? Applying ground power, air starts and air conditioning carts? Dumping lavs?

It's not too inconceivable, my job could potentially be replaced in 20-30 years.

[TheGuvna]

Funny that the Arts are safe, I guess that's one thing that can't really be automated.

[Kathandira]

Arts and Music require emotion... robots might be able to approximate good art or music, but it would not be original in the real sense of the word. It would all be derivative... though you could argue a lot of art and music is derivative now.

I agree that there is very little in this day and age which is 100% original. That is how humans work though. We take our memories and experience and mold into something of our own.

That said, I could see a robot doing the same. Taking information from a database of art, and allowing it to randomly decide which portions of that data which it will work with to create something on it's own. Not too much different from how we currently work.

I'm sure it is not as easy as it sounds though.

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[poser765]

Just realized something.
What is easier to replace?

A faulty human worker?
OR
A faulty 1 ton of complex machinery?

I'm guessing a faulty human worker. With a 1 ton complex machine there is probably little total replacement involved. It would be more along the lines of replacement of faulty boards/modules in order to fix said machine.

[AeneasBK]

Whenever it happens I hope that we've gotten over this "Everyone must work!" collective mentality

[Deleted]

If my job becomes automated the human race is probably going to get enslaved by the machines.

[poser765]

If my job becomes automated the human race is probably going to get enslaved by the machines.

You know anytime a topic comes up about either robots or AI there are always the people who come out with the skynet/machine overlord crap and it's really defeatist, trite, and really based in fantasy. It makes me roll my eyes.

With that said, Rich, if your job becomes automated then the humans race IS probably going to get enslaved by the machines.

[Kuntantee]

I am at the higher levels of of job pyramid. We have a long time before we produce programming machines .