[GET] Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: how to survive the economic collapse and be happy

[SHINOBI NINJA]

You are about to become obsolete. You think you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong. As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world, with one sole purpose: do whatever humans can do, but better.

That is the argument for a phenomenon called technological unemployment, one that is pervading modern society. But is that really the case? Or is it just a futuristic fantasy? What will become of us in the coming years, and what can we do to prevent a catastrophic collapse of society?

Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: how to survive the economic collapse and be happy explores the impact of technological advances on our lives, what it means to be happy, and provides suggestions on how to avoid a systemic collapse.

https://mega.nz/#!rAVnkATK!HfSiW5rkQo0mV...bVNRVUElcU

[AbeLincolnBart]

Short review:

One [younger guy's] view of the exponential inevitability of machines, software and Artificial Intelligence getting so sophisticated that your job will be eliminated.

Interesting facts are presented; like Moore's Law which predicts computing power doubling every two years.

And the prediction by Gordon E. Moore - cofounder of INTEL - in his 1965 paper indicated that it would likely only continue at that rate for about a decade. The truth is that Moore's law is still alive and well at the forecasted rate ever since. Sometime, physical restraints may slow this progress.

But the same facts could easily be used to prove how unlikely his fanciful scenario is. Smarter assistants [in the shape of computers or robots] may only enhance our work and creativity.

As a good lawyer will tell you, the answer is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.

Dislocations of personnel from industries that become too expensive to maintain with human operators will continue until people are really needed in other newly created industries.... Kind of like what we've seen non-stop for the last 200 years of the industrial revolution.

Change may not be fun, but it has become a constant...

AbeLincolnBart

[Patrick_Bateman]

If the bots can be programmed to blow me everyday I am all for it.

[SHINOBI NINJA]

(05-03-2016 08:52 AM)AbeLincolnBart Wrote:  Short review:

One [younger guy's] view of the exponential inevitability of machines, software and Artificial Intelligence getting so sophisticated that your job will be eliminated.

Interesting facts are presented; like Moore's Law which predicts computing power doubling every two years.

And the prediction by Gordon E. Moore - cofounder of INTEL - in his 1965 paper indicated that it would likely only continue at that rate for about a decade. The truth is that Moore's law is still alive and well at the forecasted rate ever since. Sometime, physical restraints may slow this progress.

But the same facts could easily be used to prove how unlikely his fanciful scenario is. Smarter assistants [in the shape of computers or robots] may only enhance our work and creativity.

As a good lawyer will tell you, the answer is somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.

Dislocations of personnel from industries that become too expensive to maintain with human operators will continue until people are really needed in other newly created industries.... Kind of like what we've seen non-stop for the last 200 years of the industrial revolution.

Change may not be fun, but it has become a constant...

AbeLincolnBart

Thanks for your review AbeLincolnBart