[Gllug] VACANCY: Junior Systems Support

Robert McKay robert at mckay.com
Mon Sep 7 14:27:50 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, t.clarke <tim at seacon.co.uk> wrote:

> One thing is for sure  - Robots in Nursing will never be able to eat all
> those
> boxes of chocolates given to them by grateful patients :-)
>
>
> But seriously,  if all the 'non-skilled' and 'semi skilled' jobs were to
> disappear and be replaced by robots,  having the entire population go to
> University will solve nothing, since there simply would not be enough
> 'highly skilled' jobs to go around.
>
>
The so called 'highly skilled' jobs are just as likely to be automated away
anyway. There's more motivation to automate them since the margins are
higher. People just aren't as useful/relevant as we have been and we
probably can't really justify our use of resources anymore. This has bad
implications for the economy and society in general since it spells the end
of any pretence of a meritocracy. Ironically in the short term we may end up
being more useful as robots guided by augmented reality from a computer - at
least until robotics catches up a bit.

Rob.
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