Automation is creating a big change that is going to reorder the employment universe fundamentally. People engaged in repetitive type jobs that can be easily automated should consider a Plan B for making money, because when smart machines can perform a job more cheaply than a human, then the worker will be replaced. This is […]
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August 20th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: aliens, automation, automation impact jobs, automation timeline, Central Americans, job training, low-skilled aliens, PwC report, retraining, robot, skills upgrade, smart machine |  Email This Post |  Print This Post The WEF has a prediction that should get people’s attention because of the rapid entry of smart machines into the workplace. According to the experts, the world of employment is about to experience a revolution because of computers, robots and automation, and humans will find themselves priced out by machines that are cheaper and don’t […] September 23rd, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, employees, human, immigration, manufacturing, retraining, robot, smart machines, training, workers, World Economic Forum | Email This Post | Print This Post The topic of a recent Washington Post article is hard to dispute: the United States is not planning ahead for the coming technological revolution to the world of employment. Certainly the subject of automation with its destructive effect on jobs is ignored or rarely mentioned in the capitol city. There was a 2016 Senate hearing […] April 30th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, Congress, education, job displacement, retraining, robot, technological unemployment, technology | Email This Post | Print This Post Television coverage of automation’s threat to the world of work is not common, so it was nice to see Fox’s segment on Friday. The report is decent regarding the need to rejigger education to align with future employment in the tech environment. It is certainly true that robots will require oversight and programming, but the […] July 7th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job loss, retraining, robots, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post The CBS Sunday Morning show began a special edition focusing on money with a report on automation and its threat to employment now and going forward. The eight-minute video report included tough facts about job loss across the skills spectrum with expert comments by Rise of the Robots author Martin Ford and other involved in […] April 9th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job displacement, retraining, robot, self-driving cars, self-driving trucks, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post Below is a rare local report about automation and its effects at ground level. It’s a 3-minute TV-news segment, but the piece does get the sense of general anxiety about the future of employment. One man sought retraining for a new computer-related career because automation was cutting into construction jobs. A recurring theme was that […] June 30th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, education, retraining, robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post While our hidebound representatives in Washington DC continue to ignore the technological revolution increasing in the nation’s workplaces, the political leaders in Tennessee are stepping up. The state government recognized the problem, studied it and finally created a policy response in the form of an educational program. The nation’s leaders should do half as well. […] April 5th, 2016 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, Congress, education, immigration, job displacement, retraining, robot, Tennessee | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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