I hope to find fresh, positive, workable ideas about the future of employment in a
robotic society where machines do most or all of the work. So far, The Futurist
magazine hasn’t been much help. See:
I find more originality in what Antonio Regalado has written
for MIT Technology Review. In When
Machines Do Your Job, he mentions a reason why automation is advancing
toward the creation of robots that are more like humans:
“It feels to me as if we are starting to turn a corner. The
data available to help a robot is big data, and it’s exploding. The sensors
have been progressing along a Moore’s Law trajectory. And the physical pieces
of a robot, the actuators and so on, have gotten a lot better too. So it seems
the ingredients are all in place for the robots to start getting into the
economy.”
Also, Antonio suggests an enormous number of humans can even
now bring to bear far more brainpower to the development of income-producing
opportunities despite our automated future:
“When I see that there are five billion mobile-phone subscriptions
in the world—well, hey, that is cornucopia. It is important not to lose sight
of that.”
That’s a truly exciting real-world development, the kind that
makes an optimist feel better about himself. See:
We’re overdue for a fun break. Let’s check into the Bob Nelson
performance (xxx) at Dangerfield’s, at:
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