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Computers and word processing programs have all but eliminated secretarial support positions.
When was the last time you saw a store stocker putting price stickers on an item? Or saw a cashier who entered every price in the cash register without a scanner?
Automation has replaced all sorts of manufacturing positions.
Medical providers used to dictate and someone transcribed it. Now a voice-to-text program does this or they just type it in themselves to start out with. In some systems, medical providers are expected to put in the billing codes as well.
Soon the only low-skilled jobs will be service industry jobs such a dishwasher, groundskeeping, and so forth.
Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, ... are good to go for the time being. Fingers crossed.
The verdict is still out on carpenters. 3D printing might replace that field at some point... or at least downsize it.
BTW...Not to be paranoid but I can not for the life of my see the good in robots and especially AI. At the rate we're going it won't be long and the elite will no longer need the masses. What then? My answer ain't pretty for humankind.
Follow your Republican philosophy. WORK HARDER! Go to school. Get off your a$$. No welfare for you. We need tax cuts and less regulation for the wealthy and businesses to encourage investment and job creation! Don't complain you petty fool.
There is talk of taxing "robots" and other automation devices and then having a universal basic income.
If most low skill jobs get automated - do we keep our immigration policy in place that takes mostly low skill people?
Immigration or no immigration, our population will continue to grow. People live longer now and more babies are born than people die every year. Immigration doesn't tackle the core problem, only delays it just like the opponents of the minimum wage. It'll only be a matter of time before UBI takes place or something of that nature.
Most people are going to have to go back to the land IMO. Instead of using chemicals to kill weeds we will have plenty of manpower to pull them, hoe them, cut them. Of course robots could do that too...
But I see a future of far less humans on the Earth and mostly living in smaller communities growing a lot of their own food and taking more time for the important things in life. Money will be different, I think products will be cheaper but many will not be available anymore. I pray and hope people go from consuming to trying to find what God intended for us here.
Most people are going to have to go back to the land IMO. Instead of using chemicals to kill weeds we will have plenty of manpower to pull them, hoe them, cut them. Of course robots could do that too...
But I see a future of far less humans on the Earth and mostly living in smaller communities growing a lot of their own food and taking more time for the important things in life.
I could see it playing out sort of like the Davos WEF 2030 prediction (though I think it's more like a 2045 future):
Specifically, I refer to this section (and more specifically the bolded part):
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My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.
If our cities do become places of zero privacy, zero private property, zero work -- if some of the predictions in this little piece come true -- I will certainly want to be one of those living in one of the little self-supplying communities, no question.
The effect of AI automation couple with robots connected to each other is going to be shocking to people. To see a thousand robots moving like a flock of birds in sync doing a construction job for example.
The first we see of this will be self driving cars controlled by a central computer. The pure efficiency of the way a computer thinks compared to a million different nuts behind the wheel making their own bad decisions...will be shocking I think.
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