Middle class jobs disappearing as robots take over

[hab...@anony.net]

This actually is a very good thing , we can all be in leisure
and knowledge industries , would rather watch a nubile female than a
robot lady dancing,.
Bring it on , let the robots do the menial work and the
govt distribute the wealth with a high flat rate allowance of say $200
a week for all adults and more as the economy grows and the robots
produce more goods with surplus wind and solar .

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/19/driverless-cars-pilotless-planes-jobs-human?INTCMP=SRCH

The growing use of unmanned battlefield drones is encouraging the
growth of pilotless commercial aircraft � the first ever flew in
British airspace last month. Google's driverless car is completing
ever more trials ever more successfully: the world's major car
companies are all hot in pursuit, working on their own prototypes of
their own versions. The automated checkouts at supermarkets are
becoming as familiar as bank cash machines. From staff-free ticket
offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner
of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.

This is the "Great Reset" � a cull of broadly middle-class jobs with
middle-class incomes that is apparent across the west, but with little
current sign of what industries and activities will replace them.

But the implications for employment are awesome. Thomas Frey, senior
futurologist at the DaVinci Institute, lists taxi-, bus- and
truck-driving as soon-to-be-extinct occupations � along with traffic
police, all forms of home delivery and waste disposal, jobs at petrol
stations, car washes and parking lots. The cars themselves will be
made by robots in automated car factories. The only new jobs will be
in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer
software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with
the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better.

The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be
equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want
� from shoes to pills � anticipates a world of what Summers calls
automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the
need for much work. The only jobs will be in writing the software and
building the "doers", creating a bifurcation of the labour market that
is already discernible.

The first is in micro-production. There is going to be a huge growth
in micro-brewers, micro-bakers, micro-film-makers, micro-energy
producers, micro-tailors, micro-software houses and so on who will
deploy the internet and micro-production techniques to produce goods
at prices as if they were mass-produced, but customised for individual
tastes.

The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in
advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching
and generally enhancing capabilities. Medical provision will explode,
with replacement organs, skin and limbs opening up new specialisms and
industries. Taste, sight and hearing will be vastly enhanced. Ageing
will be deferred, with old-age advisers offering advice on how to live
well in one's hundreds. Geneticists will open up a live-well economy.
Instantaneous language translation will break down language barriers.