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Will unemployment ever get better thanks to machines?


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#1 brucekeller

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Posted 16 May 2015 - 10:53 PM

When machines start repairing, building, and designing everything and doing all the medical and service work, what will humans do for work? (I know there will be certain kinds of jobs, always, like politicians, but what about blue collar type jobs especially, aside from artisans?) I should do some googling, but I wonder how many people would have jobs right now if a machine wasn't doing it cheaper and better than them? It really feels like we are within a stone's throw of all of this happening... might take a little longer for medical and service work. Sure, there will be jobs for developing that and who knows if a machine could ever have imagination? Doctors and Nurses would probably morph into something a lot less needed, basically for the human interaction and to guide the machines once Doctor 2.0 is built and can do AI type diagnoses drawing from patient info and some scanning tech we already have... 3d ultrasounds and whatnot, plus just pricking your finger and instantly running all known viruses etc with its own electronic eye looking through the microscope, blah blah, you get it, not even professional jobs will be safe. That tech is really here too, I'm kind of amazed it isn't in place already, computer+microscope+recognition+database= found it, or if new, very good idea of what it will do. Heck, microbots could be part of the process and break it down and analyze genes etc near instantly, that part not quite here yet. I just can't help what an increasing population with an increasing work efficiency will produce? Can the answer not be some bloody war? Would it require strict population control? Sorry, lol, guess that was kind of a tangent, but I think it can apply to right now... autonomous warehouses are already here and more being built, driverless cars on the way... peace out truckers and taxi cabbers in 20 years or less.

Edited by brucekeller, 16 May 2015 - 10:56 PM.