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Jerry Ward
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The future?

I love technology even though it scares the hell out of some folks. I think it's our future. My nephew is starting his first job as a cashier at Pizza Hut next Thursday. Between self check out and self driving cars and now vans that deliver pizzas without a driver, I can't help but wonder....what else will the future bring? Kind of exciting if you ask me. https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/11/pizza-hut-says-driverless-delivery-will-create-more-jobs/

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I keep telling anyone who will listen, to futureproof themselves. Get out of driving, and get out of retail for starters. Anything you think can be automated, is a dead end job.

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texxgadget .
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Gram had an expression about who's ox was getting gored.

If you are a pizza delivery person, think of it as a stop gap until you get something better. Forklift operator? Same. Driver of any sort? Same.

In the past, technology displaced the least skilled, but they could retrain and become the operators of this new technology. The 50s-80 were the heyday of this and we enjoyed this short stint of prosperity.

People desperate to regain that time voted in the last election for a candidate who promised a return of that prosperity. It will be too late by the time they realized they are going to be stabbed in the back by this tactic.

Those of you who have read my other posts may have noticed my interest in History. I did not choose History as a career, because I knew it wouldn't pay well. I use it in volunteer museum work on weekends. My specialty is in the history of technology.

Unfortunately, this leapfrogging to stay ahead of technology may be reaching its limit. We are teaching coding in schools in the hope that the next generation will be able to avoid being automated out of work. Note that FAR more jobs have been automated away than outsourced.

A presidential candidate promised a town that he would get their steel mills running again. Nobody noticed that the mills closed 20 years ago and the technology has changed.

A French company actually did reactivate one of the mills in the central US. Far from the 20k jobs expected, reactivation of the plant brought in 300. In the modern workplace you can't have people standing next to 2600f degree crucibles of molten metal. Gone are the guys in the reflectorized foundry wear. Most of those 300 people sit in a nice safe cubicle either doing paperwork or watching over the robots that actually do the work, via remote cameras and keyboards.

When I was younger, I did a number of "blue collar" jobs.
To this day, I am competent with a forklift, skid steer. When I moved into IT, I thought I would be safe from automation, because I would be controlling it. This is no longer true.

Before WW2, cargo was loaded by hand into nets, lowered into holds, unloaded and stacked there. The process was reversed at the other end. It was VERY manpower intensive. After the war, containerization took off and the longshore union was smart enough to realize there was no fighting it. Instead of fighting it, they went to management and said "When are you going to train us to run those cranes?" It was a smart move.

We still have crane operators (for now) but many of the fork trucks that move the containers on the ground are now automated. The crane scans the barcode on the container as it comes off the ship. The server enters the container in its database as arrived at port and then signals the fork which crane to get the container from and where to put it. The fork places the container within an inch of where its been told and the database is updated again. Later, one of the forks retrieves the container and loads it on the truck and the database is updated again as the semi truck leaves, complete with the trucks ID. Trucks no longer have to go into the office to pick up the weight slip, the weatherproof printers are mounted on a pylon and the driver reaches out the window to pull the printed slip. This has been running for several years.

When the semis are automated, there will probably still be a minimum wage person sitting in the cab, but the minimum wage won't cover living expenses in most towns.

I am now writing code that will in turn write more code by itself. Im 2 weeks into a several month temp job. This is only a temporary reprieve.

2 weeks ago, the 1st Tesla semi was seen on the highways.

If you are in retail or driving any vehicle, start working on getting out of the field! If you are a computer person, a temporary tactic is to learn a language called Python. Long term, I don't know what we are going to do.

The future at this point appears to be one with very wealthy and very poor and nobody in between. Logically, something will have to happen to "cull the herd" and that will be very scary.

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Thats what happened to the auto industry

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Diana Barnes
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I agree, not only automation, and technology we, are in an era of extreme controversy havingvto worry about are children being shot at school ...... and unfair hidden agenda with class warfare ,and furthermoore as you become older your less likely to be hired , even if your quailifed. Then they say you quiet your boss not your job. We are so diversifed now we cant see whats real ........ I'm glad for your nephew congradulations welcome to the working world good luck !!!!

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Doesn't feel exciting for me! I've been reading similar articles for the last couple of years. Automation taking over this, robotics taking over that, artificial intelligence replacing... and on and on and on. The future is cleat but, as usual, no one is paying attention. Corporate greed has been trying to find alternative cheap labor resources for decades and technology is the solution.

So, what happens when all this wonderful technology takes over. What are going to be the new jobs for the least skilled hard working population in the US workforce? Is China going to toss us back some manufacturing jobs we've spent years exporting to those countries to help build their economies?

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