We're a half generation away from robotic utility workers at this point. Even the old standbys are going to be removed from the equation because it will make some shareholder somewhere rich to do that.
Good luck getting that stuff by the detector at the door. The casinos security will be augmented also and they've always been very good at catching cheaters. Making the improvements cybernetic is going to fail for purposes like that. However genetic manipulation could easily achieve the same thing once the researchers have drilled down in the genome enough. That would be much harder to detect. Johnny Mnemonic isn't going to take down any casinos but Neo is a different beast.
A doctor has his plumbing back up late on Christmas eve. After the plumber finishes his work sometime after midnight dr says what do I owe you? Plumber says emergency call, after hours, on a holiday is $250 an hour for 2 hours $500. Dr says, $250 an hour? I am a dr and don't make $250 an hour, plumber says, yea, either did i when i was a dr.
if AI is anything like the internet we'll start out like this thinking its going to destroy the human race and replace all our jobs and it will just progress to building robots that play us cat videos. Then we'll have plenty of jobs for cat video creators. like I said in a previous thread- not a bad future
As long as the 25 year old is not a lazy, safe room needing, live at home with your parents, video game playing, live on Facebook, constantly texting, young person, that plan will be fine.
People should be more cognizant of this, especially in certain industries. A banker once told me to use the ATM to deposit a check instead of coming to a teller. Just like when waitresses tell you to use those kiosks rather than taking a credit card to go and swipe it themselves. This actually bothers me a lot, because if they want a tip they can take my card and swipe it at their station. There's still no replacement to have robots negotiating prices and deals and such so we still have a leg up. In my young working life I've kind of learned that like 75% of the world and business world in particular is knowing how to talk to people. This is why college seems like an absolute sham if you're not going into the medical field or some sort of science. I'm confident I could've learned to do my job without a degree.
Ha, true......... but I'm guessing someone like that isn't going to be sweating copper or crawling through attics running pipe. but unfortunately your description is pretty accurate of a large portion of "kids" these days
you could've learned to DO you job without a degree but your resume would've ended up in the trash so you never would've gotten a chance to learn I agree though these robot kiosk things piss me off and I avoid them. At my local grocery store they only open up 1 register in hopes you'll cash yourself out. I fuckin hate that. I didn't go to the store to cash myself out and bag groceries. How about some customer service for once
Here's the trade-off on a degree right now: 1. It's expensive to acquire. 2. Many jobs have it as a simple pre-req, a cutoff point. 3. The jobs that do not have it as a pre-req either pay very poorly or require several years of on the job training that pay poorly. So any job that you can get without a degree is either going to require you spending a similar period of time as a poorly paid apprentice or is going to pay poorly. With automation swinging into full gear in the next generation the number of jobs available to people with expensive degrees are going to go down. The jobs available to people without degrees are going to pay even more poorly than they do now because management will always be looking at the bot vs human argument and weighing whether to replace people with bots. The best jobs to have in the next generation for most people will be jobs that relate to creating AI, servicing bots and all the niches therein. Almost all of these jobs will require expensive degrees. So get your degree in IT, Engineering and the Electrical trades. Ideally have all 3 in there somewhere and you will never want for a job in the economy of 2040.
Unfortunately this is unlikely to happen: Even this is unlikely at this point: In both cases the most expensive element is not the shiny exosuit, it's the person driving it and costs will rule the decisions that the brass make in government or outside of it.
Some serious cane shaking going on in here. The kiosk check outs at restaurants can be very convenient depending upon the situation. If its just me and the wife then I am i no rush to leave and I rather have a chance to ask for a drink to go etc. If the wait was forever and the food took an eternity and the place is slammed, screw it I am swiping my card and walking out. This doubles for if you have your kids with you and have to go. Self check out at grocery stores is fine with me to. I rather bag my own stuff and pay for it instead of having to stand in front of some bitchy 18 year old who keeps checking her phone while swiping my groceries or listen to some 42 year old whine about her hours and continuously coughs all over the place. I for one would like to welcome our new robot overloads in the future, I hope they bring us synthetic prostitutes and create landscapers that don;t start work at 7am outside your house on a saturday.
Someone needs to ask cuban if those liberal arts degrees will be sufficient enough to pay back a 6 figure student loan.
