Once taxis are automated, nobody's going to want a human driver. In a 2-seater mini-taxi, the driver takes up one seat. No thanks.
So what are the people who used to be taxi drivers going to do? Not much.
Side note: I would recommend picking up any kind of basic scripting language at the least, regardless of your current profession, consider it an insurance for the future and a tool to increase your own productivity for the present.
First, in "Welcome to Night Vale", the rival town of Desert Bluffs is run by a corporation, and people are valued by how productive they are; if they're not productive enough (much less, not at all), they are disposed of. I believe there are many science fiction stories in the same vein, but I can't think of any at the moment.
RoboCop. OPC's city wasn't built for the benefits of the people it displaced.
It wont work in current system because it's a chicken and egg issue. We need demand first, you cannot magically conjure up a demand, otherwise you could theoretically create unlimited wealth by creating demand for high profit goods where none existed and then supplying them.
If only. The whole concept hinges on there being mental tasks that only a human brain can perform.
Except that even the lower rungs of those are now being automated. Things like the task of sorting through the reams of paperwork that is the building block of a lawsuit. Normally a task of a near army of paralegals. These days you can get a computer to do it.
The point of the robot economy is that effectively they will.
Or the robots will just make enough for themselves and take nights of to dream of electric sheep, because nobody will have the money to pay for the goods.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Human jobs are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered job-seeking community when IDC confirmed that human's share of the market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all jobs. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that human workers have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the entire concept of employing humans is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Human vs Robotics Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict human's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Human workers face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for human employees because jobs needing humans are dying. Things are looking very bad for people. As many of us are already aware, human workers continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Creative workers are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of the core jobs to AI. The sudden but welcome departures of long time human jobs for human resources only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Jobs for people ae dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
For example, Cuba's leader Raoul Castro states that there are 7000 jobs left in Cuba. How many of those are for show? Let's see. The number of government versus non-government jobs word-wide is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 non-government jobs in Cuba. Job posts for creative work on Usenet are about half of the volume of government make-work posts. Therefore there are about 700 actual jobs requiring creativity. A recent article put government jobs at about 80 percent of the entire human job market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 actual humans still employed. This is consistent with the number of Usenet job posts.
All major surveys show that human workers have steadily declined in market share. Human job prospects are very sick and the long term survival prospects are very dim. If humans areto survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers in employment. Human job prospects continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them from A.I. at this point in time. For all practical purposes, human jobs are dead.
Did you miss the whole industrialization part and that thing with communism in school?
Did you miss the first 2 words of my post - "Until now"? Just as it was possible for many displaced workers to find new jobs in the past doesn't mean that will continue - and it's already looking like we've gotten to that point.
North Korea has already said that they approve of the hacks. Now they want to "join in the investigation" and if they're refused, "something bad will happen?"
North Korea needs to be told in plain language "Get bent!" Whether they were the source or not is now irrelevant, given their latest threat.
There is no way that anyone else will let North Korea see how their intelligence service works, same as they don't show theirs to anyone else.
Robots are machines. Human being replaced by machines in the industry is hardly a new issue.
Until now, humans that were replaced by machines could find other jobs. Not any more. Increasingly, we're becoming like "Captain Dunsel" - a part that fulfills no useful purpose.
Actually, my experience is that humans who spend a lot of time outdoors in all types of weather get pretty good at knowing when to take cover as well. The degree to which this is a product of direct (detecting that a low/high pressure front is coming and similar) or indirect (observing the behavior of animals) is hard to determine since most of the time their prognostication is based on putting together various barely noticed clues.
"It's quiet. Too quiet..." Always a sign to run for cover.
Seriously, if they're out-takes, they weren't considered good enough to release. Releasing them goes against both the original musicians' wishes and foists crap on the general public because "otherwise you don't have the complete set."
Consider the out-takes as crappy code you would never release. You release the cleaned-up code and build a reputation - which is tarnished when someone releases your crappy code. Or maybe there's a politically incorrect comment in the crappy version that was there to remind you to fix something... like "Duh! This code is crap! I must be having a blonde day!"
Do you really want YOUR out-takes published for someone else's financial benefit?
"wave-particle duality is simply the quantum uncertainty principle" gets a "no shit" straight away from me, though I guess a rigorous proof of it is kind of news.
No one was going to blow up any theater. Stop being a fucking sissy.
Up until 9/11, the biggest terrorist attack was by an American, Timothy McVeigh. There are too many nutters out there who think their personal grievances justify killing "faceless people" to "make a statement".
You are purposefully ignoring the elephant in the room. In which world do you find even remotely NORMAL that a joke of a game such as "depression quest" gets reviewed on multiple serious gaming sites and gets greenlighted on Steam?
Simple - they played the "game", found out how much it absolutely sux, and thought, "That's it??? Well, that was depressing. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"
So here's the evidence of gender bias - if a man had released this pitiful turd, he would have been roundly criticized, and that would have been the end of the story. Because it's a woman who committed this piece of drek, critics of the game are labeled misogynists. Everyone piles on, utter confusion results, and people try to profit from this to get their 15 minutes of fame. After all, the bigger the "war", the more "war profits", so it's to their advantage to stir the pot.
Devices should complement each other. Besides, have you ever wished you had your phone so you could call your phone because you can't find your phone?:-)
Yeah, I've come to realize that slashdot really is just a place for old curmudgeony tech people who automatically hate all new tech...
IBM made a watch that ran Linux in 2000. Not exactly "new" technology. Ran X11 and everything. Not exactly "new technology."
The concept of advanced watches isn't new. Dick Tracy had a 2-way radio watch in 1946, and a 2-way TV watch in 1964. We can do these today, but nobody wants yet another gadget to drag along/lose/break/get stolen/have to recharge. Smartphones cover a broader range of functionality in a better usability factor. And let's face it - talking to your watch isn't exactly private compared to texting, and wearing a bluetooth headset all the time is a problem.
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Once taxis are automated, nobody's going to want a human driver. In a 2-seater mini-taxi, the driver takes up one seat. No thanks.
So what are the people who used to be taxi drivers going to do? Not much.
Side note: I would recommend picking up any kind of basic scripting language at the least, regardless of your current profession, consider it an insurance for the future and a tool to increase your own productivity for the present.
There is SO much wrong with this.
First, in "Welcome to Night Vale", the rival town of Desert Bluffs is run by a corporation, and people are valued by how productive they are; if they're not productive enough (much less, not at all), they are disposed of. I believe there are many science fiction stories in the same vein, but I can't think of any at the moment.
RoboCop. OPC's city wasn't built for the benefits of the people it displaced.
It wont work in current system because it's a chicken and egg issue. We need demand first, you cannot magically conjure up a demand, otherwise you could theoretically create unlimited wealth by creating demand for high profit goods where none existed and then supplying them.
Worked for Steve Jobs ...
If only. The whole concept hinges on there being mental tasks that only a human brain can perform.
Except that even the lower rungs of those are now being automated. Things like the task of sorting through the reams of paperwork that is the building block of a lawsuit. Normally a task of a near army of paralegals. These days you can get a computer to do it.
http://singularityhub.com/2011...
The really big problem with that trend is that eventually there will be no low-level jobs as a way of entry into a field. Then what?
You have a point, but it was either Stuxnet or a nuclear strike by Israel. Given those two options, I think we're all better off with Stuxnet.
And what is the incentive for the people owning the machines to give away everything they make for nothing?
If they were kept in a safe, nobody could distribute them. This is just a money grab.
They obviously need to make more adjustments to the Ramble-bot 1000.
The point of the robot economy is that effectively they will.
Or the robots will just make enough for themselves and take nights of to dream of electric sheep, because nobody will have the money to pay for the goods.
Dateline: December 20th, 2034
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: Human jobs are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered job-seeking community when IDC confirmed that human's share of the market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all jobs. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that human workers have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. the entire concept of employing humans is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Human vs Robotics Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict human's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Human workers face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for human employees because jobs needing humans are dying. Things are looking very bad for people. As many of us are already aware, human workers continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Creative workers are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of the core jobs to AI. The sudden but welcome departures of long time human jobs for human resources only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Jobs for people ae dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
For example, Cuba's leader Raoul Castro states that there are 7000 jobs left in Cuba. How many of those are for show? Let's see. The number of government versus non-government jobs word-wide is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 non-government jobs in Cuba. Job posts for creative work on Usenet are about half of the volume of government make-work posts. Therefore there are about 700 actual jobs requiring creativity. A recent article put government jobs at about 80 percent of the entire human job market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 actual humans still employed. This is consistent with the number of Usenet job posts.
All major surveys show that human workers have steadily declined in market share. Human job prospects are very sick and the long term survival prospects are very dim. If humans areto survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers in employment. Human job prospects continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them from A.I. at this point in time. For all practical purposes, human jobs are dead.
The percentage of people actually working is dropping, now at 67.4% compared to 2000's 74.1%.
Or the participation rate, which has been trending down for a decade.
Did you miss the whole industrialization part and that thing with communism in school?
Did you miss the first 2 words of my post - "Until now"? Just as it was possible for many displaced workers to find new jobs in the past doesn't mean that will continue - and it's already looking like we've gotten to that point.
North Korea has already said that they approve of the hacks. Now they want to "join in the investigation" and if they're refused, "something bad will happen?"
North Korea needs to be told in plain language "Get bent!" Whether they were the source or not is now irrelevant, given their latest threat.
There is no way that anyone else will let North Korea see how their intelligence service works, same as they don't show theirs to anyone else.
Robots are machines. Human being replaced by machines in the industry is hardly a new issue.
Until now, humans that were replaced by machines could find other jobs. Not any more. Increasingly, we're becoming like "Captain Dunsel" - a part that fulfills no useful purpose.
First the good news. We'll have more time to post on slashdot.
Now the bad news. We'll have more time to post to slashdot.
or too many false PIN attempts?
So some joker in your office can destroy your phone in a couple of minutes while you're in the washroom? That's pretty insecure.
Actually, my experience is that humans who spend a lot of time outdoors in all types of weather get pretty good at knowing when to take cover as well. The degree to which this is a product of direct (detecting that a low/high pressure front is coming and similar) or indirect (observing the behavior of animals) is hard to determine since most of the time their prognostication is based on putting together various barely noticed clues.
"It's quiet. Too quiet ..." Always a sign to run for cover.
Seriously, if they're out-takes, they weren't considered good enough to release. Releasing them goes against both the original musicians' wishes and foists crap on the general public because "otherwise you don't have the complete set."
Consider the out-takes as crappy code you would never release. You release the cleaned-up code and build a reputation - which is tarnished when someone releases your crappy code. Or maybe there's a politically incorrect comment in the crappy version that was there to remind you to fix something ... like "Duh! This code is crap! I must be having a blonde day!"
Do you really want YOUR out-takes published for someone else's financial benefit?
Or one idiot with a truck full of diesel fuel and fertilizer.
Such a bomb would completely level a movie theatre and most of any mall it was in.
So by too many you mean less than double digits over the course of 20 years
Timothy McVeigh, who I specifically cited, killed 168 people, and injured almost 700. in 1995.
1995 is within the last 20 years, and 168 dead is in the triple digits. And that's just one incident.
"wave-particle duality is simply the quantum uncertainty principle" gets a "no shit" straight away from me, though I guess a rigorous proof of it is kind of news.
Shhh. Don't make waves. :-)
No one was going to blow up any theater. Stop being a fucking sissy.
Up until 9/11, the biggest terrorist attack was by an American, Timothy McVeigh. There are too many nutters out there who think their personal grievances justify killing "faceless people" to "make a statement".
You are purposefully ignoring the elephant in the room. In which world do you find even remotely NORMAL that a joke of a game such as "depression quest" gets reviewed on multiple serious gaming sites and gets greenlighted on Steam?
Simple - they played the "game", found out how much it absolutely sux, and thought, "That's it??? Well, that was depressing. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"
So here's the evidence of gender bias - if a man had released this pitiful turd, he would have been roundly criticized, and that would have been the end of the story. Because it's a woman who committed this piece of drek, critics of the game are labeled misogynists. Everyone piles on, utter confusion results, and people try to profit from this to get their 15 minutes of fame. After all, the bigger the "war", the more "war profits", so it's to their advantage to stir the pot.
Devices should complement each other. Besides, have you ever wished you had your phone so you could call your phone because you can't find your phone? :-)
Yeah, I've come to realize that slashdot really is just a place for old curmudgeony tech people who automatically hate all new tech...
IBM made a watch that ran Linux in 2000. Not exactly "new" technology. Ran X11 and everything. Not exactly "new technology."
The concept of advanced watches isn't new. Dick Tracy had a 2-way radio watch in 1946, and a 2-way TV watch in 1964. We can do these today, but nobody wants yet another gadget to drag along/lose/break/get stolen/have to recharge. Smartphones cover a broader range of functionality in a better usability factor. And let's face it - talking to your watch isn't exactly private compared to texting, and wearing a bluetooth headset all the time is a problem.