47 percent of American jobs could be replaced by technology within the next 20 years
 

"It's no secret that computers and robots have been putting people out of work in recent years, but that trend is about to accelerate... at least, if you ask the computers themselves. A machine learning algorithm from Oxford University has sifted through US Bureau of Statistics data and believes that up to 47 percent of American jobs could be replaced by technology within the next 20 years. One of the biggest concerns is in logistics -- self-driving vehicles are advancing quickly enough that they could replace the likes of taxi drivers, truck drivers and forklift operators. Retail is also at risk, since companies can collect enough data about your shopping habits that they might predict what you want more effectively than human clerks.

Don't be too quick change career paths, though. The research assumes that this technology will transition from experiments to practical reality relatively quickly. There are sill plenty of technical and legal hurdles in the way, such as clearing autonomous vehicles for use on public roads. With that in mind, the research is a reminder that society isn't really prepared for tech-related job disruption on a grand scale. While Oxford's Michael Osbourne believes that humans will still have a place in creative and social work, many people aren't training that way -- and it's not clear that the market can handle a flood of new designers, artists and strategic thinkers."

they forgot to factor in army drones...

the future is so bright for the US middle class that I am importing shades from china in bulk so that the middle class can see :1orglaugh

To many legal hurdles for thus to happen for at least 30 years. Great read though thanks!

The USA will soon be comprised completely of lawyers, pigs, and prisoners.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/c7072db7e...9hzo1_1280.jpg

Those are the machines of progress.

Robots can do things more efficiently and for less money than unskilled and semi-slkilled labor.

Second and third world labor will take the big hit. Those robots will replace 90% of those countries' export workers.

Without a doubt this is an OLD fight against automation but it is getting worse.

Ultimately the real problem is that the majority of people today have ZERO skills. So when the machines do start to take over our lives all we're going to see is hoards of beggars on the street instead of hoards of people saying "FUCK IT!! We'll take care of ourselves!"

OP is a dumbfuck and can't even read good he's so blinded by bigotry.

from the article the dumbfuck c&p'ed from:

"This is not just an American phenomenon, it is not even a rich world phenomenon. This same decline in labor share is happening in most countries where we have data across the world, including places like China, India and Mexico," McAfee said.


dumbfuck. it stated America in the title of the article because no one gives a shit about your shithole country.

1) your mom and I had sex :thumbsup
2) your mind is weak
3) I copied it from here actually:

Self-driving vehicles and robotic clerks could take your job in 20 years

and nowhere in that article does it mention what you wrote...now go suck on a bag full of dildos and do not let your obvious lack of clairvoyance stand in the way of you making a fool of yourself, whilst I ride your mom :1orglaugh


it wont hit the 3rd world because self driving cars and robot store clerks and army drones are expensive...our drivers our clerks will be waaay more cost effective than any robot for some time to come...all the fast food chains in our country are western so we do not give 2 fucks...

but US workers on the other hand...

by the time the first world countries realize how much they fucked up, the robots will be either banned or world war will break out again...Im guessing the latter but in any case, the 3rd world will not feel this before the west does IMO

it's clear you lost when you can only scramble up mom insults and proof yet again you are in fact a dumbfuck because you assume technology will never make it to your 3rd world shithole

dumbfuck.

hey, namecaller, forgot your meds ?

Title is still accurate, even if it pisses you off...

It could also read :

47% of Canadian Jobs ...
47% of Germany's jobs ....
and so on ...

got the picture .. or you need a drawing ?

oh look another dumbfuck who didn't/can't even read where i already fucking addressed why "america" is in the fucking title

dumbfuck nitwit.

and you are a bigger dumbfuck nitwit because I never claimed the article isn't accurate you fucking dumbfuck

and i've got more breaking news for you dumbfucks, I'm not tech adverse and I undertand that historically technology replaces workers.

so to claim I'm pissed off about tech is about as fucking stupid a comment a dumbfuck nitwit can make.

I'm LOLing my ass off over here re: dumbfuck gfyer who gets butthurt over name calling at gofuckyourself and her retort to that is a thinly-veiled name calling about my not taking meds.

fucking hypocrite dumbfuck nitwit.

dyno mo nice job dropping a deuce into yet another thread. well done.

call me insane, but should the future portend to robots replacing people, i anticipate robots becoming real property that people own & employ to do that work for them, leading to the idea of a ginormous leisure class. of course this would require progressive legislation, given the capitalists & the 1% will seek to horde & own all the machine productivity & the poor will mismanage their machines. so the culture war will continue by proxy via machine ownership.

:2 cents:

umm, for those of you who can't pay attention at gfy you fail at realizing OP is an anti-american spewing dumbfuck.

question- is "dropping a deuce" what teen wigger wannabes say?

The problem is not progress it is that societies have to change to match the technology.

A society based on private ownership and workers who sell their labour fails when the endgame is one rich cunt owns everything, one worker switches the big machine on and off, and 7 billion unemployed.

Nvidia Aims Its Supercomputer Chips At Self-Driving Cars | WIRED

Last year's news -- look at the date ...

I footed your mom...it made a pop sound when I pulled out...weird...

http://i.imgur.com/t0MVQ3K.jpg

This must part of the op's battered woman's therapy for victims of abuse (sanctions and bombs) bravely confronting his aggressors by reminding us daily we have high insurance premiums :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

coming from the dumbfuck typing on a computer accessing the internet claiming that technology doesn't make it to his 3rd world shithole.


it prolly took you a while to unbury my Mom.

Tech companies are just like like Wall Street brokers and the banks (and pornographers) are just too fucking stupid, short sighted and greedy to NOT pursue the fast easy buck.

Just the same I'm sure they're be drones to keep people polite as they wait in line for the solent green.
And there are those of us that would like to be able to read the thread without having to scroll past a someone's bullshit lunatic rants.

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gofuckyourself

I wonder if he was in the Serbian army?

according to him he's part & parcel to the raping that went on there. he revealed that here a year or so ago.

no I was in dynamos mom...breaking my hairy 3rd world foot off :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

dude you are super desperate eh?

how does it feel to be so desperate to have to make shit up you can not even prove?

who gives a fuck what others think but can you imagine how amusing you are to me? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

He likes to bash America because during the Bosnian war, his sister was servicing the US troops with sexual favors.

To interrupt the fight for a moment...

My guess would be that a HUGE percentage of those jobs will probably be fast food.

With people screaming about McDonalds needing to pay un-skilled grunt labor $15 an hour...it's going to become reality.

No need for "high tech"...millions of jobs WILL be eliminated when fast food chains install touch screens to order in the drive thru and a card swipe to pay.
And the bright side of that is that your order won't get fucked up by the person communicating with you via 1950's technology at the drive-thru speaker.

Thanks "liberal" politicians for making this a reality that will come true very soon. I'm sure that all the un-skilled labor that were making $7.50 an hour will appreciate your "good intentions" once they have no jobs.
Now that you are demanding they get DOUBLE that for a job a monkey could do...they will now get ZERO dollars and will be un-employed. :(

Supposedly McDonald's is going to start going cashier-less next year. There's a million jobs lost right there.

The problem is our schools need to change curriculum accordingly to the changing times like Japan and China have been doing for the past decade. Start teaching children the skills they will need to advance in the technology age. It's obvious we're evolving and 100s of years from now there will be minimal work/jobs involving labor.

Crying about Computers/Robots taking over jobs is like a farmer who sold horses a century ago complaining about Ford Motors taking all of their business. Times change, you can either adapt or cry. But this generation will be old already as new technology takes over their jobs. They'll soon be dead anyway. We just need to make sure the future generation has shifted their focus into learning the expertise relevant to that day's standard.

Computer taking over a job 20 years from now? Have your kids learn the skills to design or maintain that computer that took over that job.

The end.

Yeeap, good thing I'm in the right path..:upsidedow

And about Teens losing their jobs at McDonalds, when I was 16-17ish I quit my job at a restaurant and starting doing eBay. There's hundreds of thousands of Teens making money online Today. All it takes is a fraction of intelligence, an account at some auction/marketplace somewhere and you can make more than any wages paid in a fast food place. I don't understand why any Teens would even want a job at McDonalds with Today's technology. Trading is a fundamental of life and is not going anywhere.

Nice post. :thumbsup

3.5 million truck drivers in the USA
surprisingly only 250.000 taxi drivers...
3.5 million in fast food joints

I do not know how many people work in normal shops/supermarkets ect...it would be fair to say another 10million total?...

Yes, but robots have made the same stuff for decades, than they make in China, etc. Still, it is mostly made in China, etc. Cost vs cost. Taking advantage of poor humans is surprisingly cheap.

That day is almost here ........

A company called Momentum Machines has built a robot that could radically change the fast-food industry and have some line cooks looking for new jobs.

The company's robot can "slice toppings like tomatoes and pickles immediately before it places the slice onto your burger, giving you the freshest burger possible." The robot is "more consistent, more sanitary, and can produce ~360 hamburgers per hour." That's one burger every 10 seconds.

The next generation of the device will offer "custom meat grinds for every single customer. Want a patty with 1/3 pork and 2/3 bison ground to order? No problem."

Momentum Machines cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas told Xconomy his "device isn?t meant to make employees more efficient. It?s meant to completely obviate them." Indeed, marketing copy on the company's site reads that their automaton "does everything employees can do, except better."


http://s29.postimg.org/4k9fnoihz/robot_specs.png


Momentum Machines Burger Robot - Business Insider

That article is insufficient: regular office employees are at risk too, and lawyers too, at least outside US where it is not about showmanship. But machine is better at finding loopholes; it just scans the database and: "1000012 loopholes found, release the accused". :)

and then what? what do we do with the many many millions that are unemployed due to no longer being needed.

the average age of a mcdonalds employee is now closer 30 now, sorry, the economy and jobs market is no longer like it was when you were 16 & 17.

Fast Food Workers Need a Real Break TodayÂha|ÂhaEarl Ofari Hutchinson

and do you really think every 16 & 17 year old is just going to self motivated to hustle internet money? lol no. especially with a few extra million people competing with you

pick up programming.

Can I ask what you are trading (even somewhat), how do you get your stock, fund your stock, and what is your competition advantage? You know, why someone buys from you, and not from some webshop or store?

And what about the logistics?

If this is about selling your own old stuff, it isn't really earning your living.

I agree they need to learn how to do things like :

• How to avoid being spotted by drones when they dig through some rich bastard's trash
• How to hack the MdDonalds computer for free food
• How to remove all security measures on a stolen iPhone before reselling it
• How to avoid thermal image detection while living in a squat
• How to fake the biometric data on your ID card when arrested for begging

its not so easy to make money online any more...stuff is getting saturated fast and taken over by big players...not everybody is cut out for IM...many many people fail at it...try starting out in porn 20 years from now, or dating or anything mainstream on the net...good luck with trying to reach the 10th page of google or bidding on adwords...automation will happen faster on the net that it will in real life...I would not be surprised if droves of IM guys suddenly found themselves without work simply because changes on the net happen faster than in real life...does anybody remember how easy affiliate marketing was 10 years ago? :1orglaugh...

face it: tons and tons of low skill jobs will always be needed...but low skill jobs will obviously be the first to get hit by automation ...this automation will happen first in the countries with the most money...and on the net...

humans labour is becoming redundant and commercially unsustainable...especially highly paid human labour in rich countries...and on the net...

Maybe the morons screaming for people doing unskilled labor to be paid a "living wage" should have thought about that before they opened their dick suckers. :(

Unskilled labor SHOULD be paid a low wage. It's called "entry level" work.

But many people screamed that "Oh, in this economy it's not just entry level kids and senior citizens anymore...now it's people trying to raise families that need to make more money"

Well, that sounds "nice" and I love unicorns and rainbows too. But the REALITY is...now they won't have ANY job or income.
Where I'm from, something is better than nothing. At least until you can pull your shit together and get a better job.

Now? They will all be on welfare. And the Democrat Party expands it's voter base yet again by making people dependent. :(

You have to actually have stuff to sell to "Do Ebay".

And yes, there are hundreds of thousands of "teens" making money online today...it's called "Webcams". lol

Bad news for unions.