The Robots are Taking Our Jobs: Part II

Google has just announced a huge new push into robotics. And they're not the only ones. We seem to hear about new, exciting robotics companies every day. But as Trace tells us, these next-gen robots could be after your job.

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"The night watchman of the future is five feet tall, weighs 300 pounds and looks a lot like R2D2 - without the whimsy. And will work for $6.25 an hour."

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"It isn't as though they're the first ones to have thought of this; people have been making jokes about things like pizza-delivery drones for a few years now. But as the world's biggest internet retailer, Amazon might be be able to make it happen."

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[efortune]

"If one machine can cut necessary human labor by half, why make half of the workforce redundant, rather than employing the same number for half the time? Why not take advantage of automation to reduce the average working week from 40 hours to 30, and then to 20, and then to ten, with each diminishing block of labor time counting as a full time job? This would be possible if the gains from automation were not mostly seized by the rich and powerful, but were distributed fairly instead.

Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible. But, to do that, we first need a revolution in social thinking."

~Lord Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick

[Tremor]

Smiling robots laughing over you while you are lying on the ground and dieing!
Imagine this haha!

[yaboyclear]

I say, that if it's okay for robots to take our jobs. Then how about all us humans, go take THEIR jobs?

[WeNeedASpaceShip]

I want a robot that cheers me up and holds my hand as I'm pooping. Is this too much to ask?

[MirekSasek]

"Mum, what's a human?"
"That is very dangerous question darling, we don't want to get destroyed by drones, scan your barcode so you're a strong AI."

[sarfios]

It is okay for robots to take my job, and then delieve me the money in the end of the month. 

[Puzzleguy]

They come over here and they take our jobs!

[nrdslife]

I think that replacing human workers with robots is okay iff the humans being replaced are trained for and given jobs in other sectors or no longer need to work for their survival nor the necessities of life.

[YuikiHanegawa]

the R2-D2 one sounds good just make sure there is a real human security with it or near by for the robot to contact if there are any danger

[josephsanchez]

The bigggest threat to mankind is man himself

[freazeezy]

how will teenagers buy smokes and beer if they can't get a job at maccas?

[efortune]

"There's a real issue here about jobs. We've had, as you've observed, as new technology may destroy old jobs but it also creates more jobs than it destroys. That may not be the case with a world of ubiquitous manufacturing robots.
We may see sometime, it's not gonna happen soon, 20 years or so we may really see a world where the jobs are taken over by machines and... it's the leisure society, except you don't get paid."
~Paul Saffo, Technology Forecaster based in Silicon Valley. A Consulting Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford. Saffo teaches courses on the future of engineering and the impact of technological change on the future

[damienj.]

Silly Robots, I have no job therefore you can't take my job. Check Mate Robots.

[MarxIzalias]

Strip the buyer of their ability to earn money and therefore buy, you kill your ability to sell. The entire marketing system collapses on it's face.

[efortune]

One thing not being mentioned is the exponential rate that computer power is advancing at doubling ever 18 months.

[Somezable]

Funny though jumped in my head when the K5 was introdused... Burglar sees this robot that starts following him, pointing his camera at him. He then picks up a empty trashcan and puts it over the robot and continues his burgalring while the k5 rolls around in circles bumping into things. :D

[MrDumptyTheDeadman]

And what happens to all those "low skilled" workers? Mass un-employment, the poor become homeless and the robot owners and inventors just don't give a shit.

[JulieAV]

I wonder if the delivery drones will be able to negotiate balconies. This seems like the best way to have your package waiting for you when you get home but might be a challenge to the drone.

[Justakez]

Since companies are planning to use robots to replace humans to probably increase the productivity and reduce the costs, how will they make other jobs for humans? I mean there are already millions of homeless or jobless or even both people and by doing this, its probably going to highly increase the rates of the jobless around the world and wouldn't that have huge impact on tax rates and other expenses?

[invisiblejaguar]

It's like my grandfather always said, "what will we do with people?"