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One In Three Jobs Will Be Taken By Software Or Robots By 2025, Says Gartner
dcblogs writes: "Gartner predicts one in three jobs will be converted to software, robots and smart machines by 2025," said Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's research director at its big Orlando conference. "New digital businesses require less labor; machines will make sense of data faster than humans can," he said. Smart machines are an emerging "super class" of technologies that perform a wide variety of work, both the physical and the intellectual kind. Machines, for instance, have been grading multiple choice test for years, but now they are grading essays and unstructured text. This cognitive capability in software will extend to other areas, including financial analysis, medical diagnostics and data analytic jobs of all sorts, says Gartner. "Knowledge work will be automated."
As with everyone else who wants to reduce the population, I say to you "you first".
were able to get by and make progress only having one person in the family working full time.
You can have a much higher standard of living today with one person working than you could in the 60s! Tiny tract house, one car for the family, one TV, a washing machine, and a refrigerator, and you have what families were aiming for in the 50s, and largely had by the 60s.
Expectations have risen faster than earning power, and that's great. Women wanted the option of working outside the home, and that's great. These are not problems with the system.
What happens when we get to a point where we just don't need everyone to work in order to provide the goods and services people want?
People always want more. You can always achieve full employment with people helping their neighbors. That's not a system that works unless robots make all the basics, but if that was the case, I could certainly make enough helping people install their home theater systems to have them help me with interior decorating, and so on.
The end of mindless menial labor is a good thing.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
All wrong, the actual problem is that all this wealth that the economy was generated was too sweet for the socialists to pass by, socialists of-course being the masses, who would elect anybody to the top who would promise to steal from those who have more and prop up those who have less. Combined with the destruction of sound money (inflation via money printing by government), the climate is so anti-business that it makes no sense hiring anybody in USA and many European countries also and a similar problem apparently.
The reality is of-course that free market capitalism was destroyed and replaced with socialism/fascism and this is the reason that there is no competitive environment, there are fewer and fewer businesses, only the largest ones are remaining and these can automate and outsource to increase efficiencies.
Small businesses are being destroyed by the rules, laws, regulations, taxation and inflation (lack of savings that prevents capital formation and prevents smaller businesses from getting loans) and large businesses are propped up in this socialist/fascist system.
Yes, socialism is a dirty word. Collectivism is a dirty word. Fascism is a dirty word. Communism is a dirty word. Those are the ideas that the oppressors use to destroy individuals and in an amusing twist, those are the same ideas that then turn around and assign the blame for the economic destruction that they cause to the no longer existing free market capitalism and laissez faire ideas, which are nowhere to be found in this regulated, taxed, inflated environment.
You can't handle the truth.