On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 16:17 -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: > Ah yes, technical humor!
I thought it was "meta humor", but I'll consider it a success. Thanks! > Anyway, here’s a different take on jobs, robots and the rest of us. > > Robots are always going to need periodic updating, maintenance and upgrades. > [...] And shares in the companies that will make these outrageous profits can be bought by anyone (but do wait for the stock bubble to pop). How's this for a "take" on jobs: Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. - G. Bernard Shaw > So, those of us who are technically competent will still end up with jobs > [...] I know more physicists and engineers who went on to law, high-finance, biotech&geology (in rapid succession in one case), and beer- and wine- making (two individual cases) than those who stayed where they were. > You will also have the hobbyist tinkerer (like me) who will be[...] ...who will be (speaking collectively) the locus of the next disruptive technology and, compounded, the singularity. Pick your approach vector carefully. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
