On 08/18/2016 08:24 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:> This caught my eye on Twitter. > https://medium.com/@cdixon/eleven-reasons-to-be-excited-about-the-future-of-technology-ef5f9b939cb2
"It is much easier to imagine jobs that will go away than new jobs that will be created. Today millions of people work as app developers, ride-sharing drivers, drone operators, and social media marketers— jobs that didn’t exist and would have been difficult to even imagine ten years ago." Heh, it's painful to realize that this soon after the advent of ride-sharing, AI will almost immediately put many of those drivers out of work (though the capitalists at the top will retain their fortunes). It doesn't take much to see that drone operators and social media marketers will soon follow. App developers? Well, that may take a bit longer. 8^) Here's an interesting, if old, article on it: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/08/is-your-job-routine-if-so-its-probably-disappearing/ The tech advances in the @cdixon article will be mostly reserved for people born into privilege (location, [social|economic] class, education, etc.). I'd be a lot more optimistic if we were taking the idea of a basic income seriously ... and if breathtakingly anti-science politicians were not in (or close to) positions of power: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-s-lack-of-respect-for-science-is-alarming/ -- ␦glen? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
