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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (741137)9/23/2013 1:11:56 AM
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>> But your missing that software like Watson will replace "brain" workers that rely on knowledge but only programmable creativity. So, those jobs will be going too. Those jobs pay more, and software can be much cheaper that a robot/software combination.

I'm not missing it; I just think is a ways off yet. A much more pressing problem is that of laborers having no jobs.

In the last year I've been working mostly with iOS, and it is far more about design than it is programming; all the stuff we used to have to write (data structures and fundamental algorithms) is already there. It is just a matter of tying it together and making it look right.

But there is still plenty of new stuff to be done. Evolving technologies like nanosystems will provide plenty of work for the educated over the next few decades I suspect. But laborers are going to have a problem, in that those jobs are easily replaced. The key thing is to buy as much time as possible for worker retraining.

IMO, the biggest problem we've got today is the archaic university system which should be curtailed immediately in favor of online courses to the extent possible, making education affordable for people. Once again, government's good intentions (student loans) have had horrible results (unaffordable and often useless education).

I don't fear technology, generally -- but I do fear the economic consequences of it. I used to think it would be cool if we could all sit around and do nothing while machines do all the work. I now realize how stupid that idea is; the economic problems created by it may not be worth it at all.
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