re: What will happen to the poor, unskilled people when the robots come?

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As overpopulation grows, mandatory death will take place on your 65th birthday.

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See you on Carousel.

I like how you think the lawyers are the "blood sucking" profession.

Hologram NFL referees..they will have eyes on each player and monitor their actions with 100% accuracy. Determining if their actions met illegal standard.

Also will keep perfect time of play and game clocks.

Perfect ball spots.

No discussions or replay view time needed.

No accidental blocks or play interference.

The fact that they still spot the ball based on their perception (often from a terrible angle) and then measure the first downs with chains is a bit baffling.

Should be really easy to technologically determine when a punt goes out of bounds as well.. instead you have a referee running up from 20 yards downfield guessing at it.

Their carcasses will be rendered down into oils to grease the machine parts.



Uh duh.

a lot of them will have to give up their football, basketball, and baseball tickets, and hang out on TD.

I don't think people realize just what's going to hit over the next 2 decades. People say "they always say that about new technology", but new technology has never come after so many jobs at once. Within the next 2 decades the technology and economics will be there to replace pretty much any job that's routine.

It's not just hitting one industry, this wave of technology will hit the low hanging fruit of every industry practically all at once. You won't see the new tech slowly creep from segment to segment of the economy, like the ATM mainstreaming and then 15 years later self checkout at the grocery store comes along. You'll see everyone that drives for a living become less valuable in the span of maybe 5 years. Truck drivers, taxi drivers, limo drivers, even the soccer mom might lose her job to a Johnny Cab. When you go to a doctor or lawyer now, you may interact with 2-4 people before you see the actual professional. Most if not all of those front line people will be replaced by interactive kiosks that will handle the basic assessment.

In the long term society will hopefully adjust and we won't get stuck in an idiocratic state, but in the short term our new self serve world will be so disruptive to the value of human capital that I don't see how we get by without massive wealth redistribution. On the positive side, we shouldn't lose much because the economic output will remain the same or possibly increase, it's just that the amount of human input required to get the same output will fall off a cliff.

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I don't think people realize just what's going to hit over the next 2 decades.

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I've been working in automation and controls for over 2 decades. Robotics have been around for longer than most people realize. Recent developments in humanoid type robots, in particular, as well as other bipedal, quadrupedal and other legged robots have made people consider what these may replace in the future.

Ultimately, with robotics, in particular, and technology, in general, there is always a cost/payback line. this is particularly true for menial labor, where skill requirements are limited and the primary determinate will be the cost to do the work. In essence, cheap labor means fewer robots and complex tasks mean fewer robots.

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In the long term society will hopefully adjust and we won't get stuck in an idiocratic state, but in the short term our new self serve world will be so disruptive to the value of human capital that I don't see how we get by without massive wealth redistribution.

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I believe there is a great deal of truth in this statement , though I'm not convinced these events will precipitate in my lifetime.