April 2018
Beginner
336 pages
9h 48m
English
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Chapter 17
Adding New Human Occupations
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting paid in space
Building cities in new locations
Enhancing human capabilities
Fixing our planet
When people view news about robots and other automation created by advances in technology, such as AI, they tend to see the negative more than the positive. For example, the article at https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/30/16719092/automation-robots-jobs-global-800-million-forecast states that using automation will cost between 400 million and 800 million jobs by 2030. It then goes on to tell how these jobs will disappear. Even though the article does admit that some technological advances create jobs (for example, the personal computer created an estimated 18.5 million jobs), the focus is on all those jobs lost and the potential for the loss to become permanent (as they have supposedly become in the industrial sector). The problem is that most of these articles are quite definite when it comes to job losses, but nebulous, at best, when speaking of job creation. The overall goal of this chapter is to clear away the hype, disinformation, ...
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