How To Lose Your Job To A Robot

[eridani]

http://www.manufacturing.net/blogs/2012/10/how-to-lose-your-job-to-a-robot?et_cid=2877911&et_rid=54679148&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.manufacturing.net%2fblogs%2f2012%2f10%2fhow-to-lose-your-job-to-a-robot

I recently posted video entitled Are Droids Taking Our Jobs? explores the job market and how the recession is affecting workers, as well as robot welfare. As our society progresses, robotics and algorithms are becoming more advanced at an exponential rate. This has been apparent for quite some time. So, are droids really taking our jobs?

In a word, yes. Though, this brings about a much more political issue – job creation. As stated in the video, profits are up, but the job market is not. Both sides of our political system have been preaching about off-shoring jobs. Who is being honest and accurate? I leave to you for debate. The question to ask is: What jobs are we sending overseas? I agree that it is important to have jobs for all, but the wages are lower for two reasons:

1. Corporations are tightening their belts, even with recovering profits.

2. Factory floor jobs are no longer money making positions, like they used to be.

[LunaSea]

1. Apparently I'm going to be replaced by some sort of Ruumba

At least that was my initial impression this morning from clicking the link below.

I do remember watching my broadcaster fathers' job taken over by massive tape machines thirty years ago, and hoped it would take a while before they got around to my line of work.

One of my better clients is a fairly well-known roboticist, and my experience with he and his colleagues has me reassured that most robots are still in the early stage of stupid.
At least for a bit longer.

But I'm stocking up on powerful magnets for the future.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Robot_artist_learns_masters_brush_strokes_999.html