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Foxconn Boosting Automated Production in China (digitimes.com)
Foxconn Electronics is automating production at its factories in China in three phases, aiming to fully automate entire factories eventually, according to general manager Dai Jia-peng for Foxconn's Automation Technology Development Committee. From a report on DigiTimes: In the first phase, Foxconn aims to set up individual automated workstations for work that workers are unwilling to do or is dangerous, Dai said. Entire production lines will be automated to decrease the number of robots used during the second phase, Dai noted. In the third phase, entire factories will be automated with only a minimal number of workers assigned to production, logistics, testing and inspection processes, Dai indicated.
I wish there were more articles on automation in other areas besides manufacturing because most people think of assembly lines when automation occurs when that's a small fraction.
Legal research is automated. Much farming. Bookkeeping. And even software development.
It's great that productivity is increasing and having message loops and other boiler plate code generated is a blessing, but what are people who are displaced to do?
Speaking as one of them, retraining is a Fairy Tale. No one hires a middle aged entry level person. Oh! I retrained because it was impossible to get another job as a software developer at 50 - when I did get feedback, it was always "You don't have the skills." Yeah, whatever.
Kids - go into Medical. Luckily my wife is in medical and in her 50s, she has no problem with getting jobs. She is aghast at the stupidity of tech. She thought I was a lazy sack of shit until it came out in the news what a hard time we in tech have - aging out, H1-bs, offshoring, etc....
And I advise young people, unless you are in the 99.99th percentile - you have been offered full academic scholarships to MIT, Yale, Harvard or even Stanford - stay out of tech.
Smart people have been saying that for a while.
The stupid will not be swayed by whatever amount of evidence. After all, they are stupid.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.