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re: Leaked video shows new 'nightmare-inducing' wheeled robot from Boston Dynamics
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:06 pm to Kentucker
Posted on 2/7/17 at 6:06 pm to Kentucker
I understand the need and demand for robotics but I don't like this one bit. This country needs manual laborers and I happen to believe that it's in everyone's best interest (besides google etc) that they be filled by capable humans. Gonna happen anyway but not without controversy and I realize my fears are still quite a few years in the future.
Posted on 2/7/17 at 8:21 pm to Commander Data
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Gonna happen anyway but not without controversy and I realize my fears are still quite a few years in the future.
The rush to robotics is being fueled by the unreliability and great costs associated with human workers. Unions and liberal laws mandating unrealistic employer/worker relationships are causing businesses to frantically search for alternatives. The only realistic alternative is the use of robots.
Take McDonald's for instance. With unskilled workers demanding $15.00/hour and many local and state governments supporting them, the company is looking at automating its operations so that the human worker cost is eliminated.
Every major company that has enough resources to explore robotics is doing so, especially at the production level. Is this shockwave of human worker replacement quite a few years in the future? No. It's well under way and the effect on the masses will only become more extreme in the next 5 years.
The new Trump administration seems oblivious to this major threat to the working class. So was the previous Obama leadership. Technology is changing the world faster than politics can keep up. This could have grave consequences in the 2020s.
Posted on 2/8/17 at 2:24 pm to Commander Data
Would be even better if we got rid of industrial farming and get 75% of the population back out in the fields. Talk about full employment
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