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
I call this thread dead.
My apologies to the list.
I had not idea this would turn out like this.
On 2018-06-13 14:23, David Schwartz wrote:
> How can this NOT be a political topic?
>
> It's about jobs. Jobs that are being replaced by automation. At companies who
> are really only
Ah yes, technical humor!
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.
So, those of us who are technically competent will still end up with jobs, just
in a different specialty. You will also
How can this NOT be a political topic?
It's about jobs. Jobs that are being replaced by automation. At companies who
are really only interested in PROFITS, not the quality of life of their
employees or what costs they dump on the community as a result of under-paying
workers or laying them
On Wed, 2018-06-13 at 13:36 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> It might be a good idea for you, the Original Poster, to declare this
> thread dead, before it REALLY gets out of hand.
But what's a kill-thread command for then? The discussion about
whether we should be discussing this is icing on the
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:36:04 -0700
techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
> wow David. Yikes!!
>
> I posted this link because we are in the center of some big changes
> that no one is talking about. I never intended it to become
> political.
Your post was offtopic, and it was obvious, at least
Well, the Good News for folks on this list is that the software industry has
still done virtually nothing to improve our own productivity, and as a result
the Dept of Labor is still estimating a general shortage of over a million
programmers by 2020.
We (as in WE THE PEOPLE) should be
The article says in part "...advances in automation will lead to the
loss of over 5 million jobs in 15 major developed and emerging economies
by 2020.".
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/32240/1-jobs-could-be-lost-to-robots-says-citi
I'm starting to see lots of articles like this one.
