Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050?

Posted by michael on Thursday July 24, 2003 @01:24AM from the metal-man dept.

Anonymous writes "Marshall Brain (the guy who started HowStuffWorks) has published an article claiming that robots will take half the jobs in the U.S. by 2050. Some of his predictions: real computer vision systems by 2020, computers with the CPU power and memory of the human brain by 2040, completely robotic fast food restaurants in 2030 (which then unemploy 3.5 million people), etc. It's a pretty astounding article. My question: How many people on /. think he is right (or even close - let's say he's off by 10 or 20 years)? Or is he full of it?"

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Re:people will buy machines by RodgerDodger · 2003-07-24 11:40 · Score: 1, Troll

If we had not opened the immigration floodgates to anyone at all back in 1968, the US would be a different place.

I'm assuming you meant 1768, right?

And which Native American tribe did you say you belonged to?

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