More Jobs Predicted for Machines, Not People
24th October 2011
A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood, according to two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The automation of more and more work once done by humans is the central theme of “Race Against the Machine,” an e-book to be published on Monday.
“Many workers, in short, are losing the race against the machine,” the authors write.
October 25th, 2011 at 09:36
Automation, making humans redundant one process at a time.
October 25th, 2011 at 11:08
We have a little list … they never will be missed….
October 25th, 2011 at 11:46
Fortunately, we have plenty of empty places to store them: Dearborn, Cleveland, Detroit, …
October 25th, 2011 at 15:15
Won’t work. Those places are empty because of automation.
Everbody’s moved to Texas, where they can hustle coffee at the local Starbucks and mow lawns in their spare time–until automation comes to those fields, too.
October 25th, 2011 at 16:39
Not *quite* empty. The useless people are still there. The ones who are interested in honest employment, even hustling coffee, do indeed move elsewhere.
October 27th, 2011 at 09:42
Well, I’m still here, and I’m honestly employed–designing machines to put yet more people out of work.
Is this a great country, or what?