The World Future Society’s publication is The Futurist and its
editor is Thomas Frey. In his blog not long ago, he wrote that two billion jobs
will disappear in the next 18 years, by 2030.
For examples of jobs to be shoved aside by automation, he
visits the power industry, the human-driven automobile, education, goods now
produced in factories, and “nearly every physical task” now done by humans.
Late
in 2012, The Futurist published this eye-opener: “Eight Shocking Quotes From
2012 That Will Redefine Our Future.” They include Tom Frey’s view of
disappearing jobs.
In my eBook, My
America 1931-2031: An Editor’s Take on America’s Most Astonishing 100 Years,
I point out that some futurists say each individual humanoid-robot brain
(computer) will contain all of the information maintained by all of the
computers in the world.
If that’s so, we can expect superhuman, super-smart bots will conceive,
invent, design, manufacture, and deliver just about every thing, including
even-smarter and more-capable robots.
So, I believe man has less than 18 years to figure out (with
or without robotry assistance) what we humans will do to occupy our time, how
and where we will exist without jobs providing money, and how we will be able
to afford to acquire the goods and services produced by robots and other kinds
of automation.
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