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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (254713)	7/1/2014 9:57:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541957

So instead of training as an assembly line worker - I would suggest you work in a discovery biotech lab where they are making huge advances in science - added with the help of robots. You're still missing the difference this time. This isn't autos replacing horses. It's not the steam hammer replacing John Henry. This is software and hardware replacing human brains, including some very smart human brains, like medical diagnosticians, among many others. Do you think the assembly line worker chose to be one? If he doesn't have the smarts to work in the "discovery biotech lab" now, why will he then? =============================================================================== The robots are coming. Will they bring wealth or a divided society? Driverless cars, robo-ships and delivery drones are likely to become commonplace in the decades to come. One labour market expert argues that a 'second machine age' will test our ability to spread the rewards fairly theguardian.com ...This is because the power of intelligent machines is growing as their cost collapses. They are doing things reliably now that would have sounded implausible only a few years ago. By the end of the decade, Nissan pledges the driverless car, Amazon promises that electric drones will deliver us packages, Rolls-Royce says that unmanned robo-ships will sail our seas. The expected use of machines for everyday purposes is already giving rise to angst about the nascent problem of "robot smog"as other people's machines invade ever more aspects of our personal space. As economically significant, perhaps, as the rise of super-gadgetry is the growing power of software to accurately process and respond to data patterns. This raises the prospect of machines reaching deep into previously protected areas of professional work like translation, medical diagnostics, the law, accountancy, even surgery...