12 machines that want your job

The basic fact is that in predictable applications or situations robots or computers are hard to beat,which means that many routine processing type jobs have been disappearing.,not just in factories but also many routine lower level clerical jobs.The ones that remain will  be those where human interaction is key or where it is necessary to respond with flexibility and insight  to novel or  unpredictable situtions.That's where intelligent  and adaptable humans have a clear edge.

    These days you can robotically fly a plane to a distant destination, including take-off and landing but if you have complete engine failure on take-off as happened  for instance in New york ,only an experienced and highly skilled pilot can save the day.You will not replace a firefighter but could provide him or her  with adjunctive robotic assistance

   The problem lurking out there is that is that  I fear  many people lack the cognitive attributes for higher level mental work and that is why we must strive to make the most of what talent we have,with the best education possible to promote  development of creative  thinking and problem solving skills.We need much better teachers.Many of the now  structurally unemployed  lack ability to learn those new skills.They are either obsolescent. or already  obsolete in economic  terms.What will become of these unfortunates?

   Creative Distruction is all well and good,but implicit is the assumption that when jobs disappear new jobs will  hopefully materialize for those sidelined but I am fearful that good paying jobs for people with minimal skills are regrettably fast  becoming a thing of the past.

I, for one, would never want to live in a time or place where people were nearly 100% dependent on machines.  For example, I like to drive, and you couldn't give me a self-driving car.

Yeah, I'm not dependent on machines either.  I like to put my dishes in the dish washer the way I like to put them in it and choose my soap I want to use.   Nope you won't see me dependent on no darn machines. ;)~ 

MACHINES should be in the front lines of the battle field instead of each generation of US sons, daughters, fathers, sisters, brothers, mothers, uncles, aunts, grandmothers, grandfathers being sent to be systematically sacrificed on foreign soil for other nations: all while we have Open Borders Criminal Illegal Alien The Race=666=LaRaza ills aka illegals, illegitimates, illiterates being welcomed as a Plague vs One Nation Under God stealing what our heritage and US Military have earned, worked and died for.

This nation has no leaders just--coward TRAITORS WITHIN giving away the USA!

This is why I have gone back to school to learn more about technology. I want a job building and supporting the devices that are taking todays jobs.  The USA can’t live in 1980 forever and if we tried the country would go down the drain.