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Some jobs remain beyond the reach of automation, but the list is growing shorter. "The pace and...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012, 8:19 AM ETSome jobs remain beyond the reach of automation, but the list is growing shorter. "The pace and scale of this encroachment into human skills is relatively recent and has profound implications," says MIT's Andrew McAfee. Next: Robots with "eyes" (using technology found in Microsoft's Kinect) that can pick up boxes and drop them on a conveyer belt. Think FedEx and UPS.
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"Think FedEx and UPS"? How about the post office?
The first thought I had beyond FedEx and UPS was application of these robots for mining.
Mining:
http://bit.ly/OCvW4C
And these *are* computer controlled:
http://bit.ly/OCvYcP
No... Middle management, is the next big target for automation. The last great inefficiency in most corporations.
Queue Lafargue's "The Right to Be Lazy."
Also, for some reason, they seem to produce a lot of life-like robots intended to be teachers in classrooms. I think this speaks to the lack of creativity in their education style, but hey, each to their own. :)
And in the social engineers' perfect world, you can marry a plant if you like. There are many who already claim to have done so.
Its the same with offshoring jobs. Cheap labor competes with Washington DC regulations and union overreach.
Don't be mad at a robot. Be mad at Richard Trumpka and his horde of robotic cliches and angry robots under his care. Just look at his face. He's a very angry soul. That's his industry; fomenting rage. I'd rather build a robot than deal with his kind.
This is an investment site. Make sure you understand the politics. It plays right into your investments. All of them. GM tanked because Richard Wagoner was corrupt in re to the unions and gave away the shop. The American taxpayer under Obama the Corrupt bailed out VEBA and the UAW, not an auto company. Now we are over $30 billion underwater and growing. Don't invest in GM. Invest in a real car company, one that either builds better robots or hires overseas. Any company in fact that avoids Washington DC's cruelty and abuse. If you invest in a company that is under Obama's authority, you will lose all your money. Bank on it.
Again, this is an investment site. Be aware.
And I see few Goliaths of negotiation or performance in the auto industry lately as the general performance of Government Motors continues to either take the easy road or defer difficult decisions to blame anything but themselves.
Personally, I'd put Union heads and the corporate heads with which they deal in the same greed pot... and boil away!
Self-sufficient people don't vote for more govt, that's why. Kids who can't find jobs because they wasted k-12 reading politically correct literature instead of learning tasks for which adults will pay, will vote for more govt. It starts in the public schools, the root of the problem is there. That's the nexus of the lifetime of govt-dependency. Competing schools is the solution.
Should be pretty easy to do since all the idiots I interact with simply read scripts, read rules, and claim they are just following their instructions.
And lets not do any maintenance - as the robots malfunction just let them rust away!!
And we'll end up with smaller government - and I'll bet we won't even notice a big change.