Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolution. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Robocops on the streets of Dubai 'within 2 years'
Bar to keep your job keeps rising in every profession / career / job category; it started with robots replacing humans on production lines & in agriculture, & soon:
- accountants out of a job within 10 years (The Economist prediction) with the help of accounting & tax softwares,
- truck drivers out of a job due to self-driving trucks (Daimler trucks),
- chauffeurs & taxi drivers out of jobs with self-driving cars (Google's self-driving cars),
- hotel human staff being made redundant with the help of robot staff (Henn na hotel in Japan),
- shelf stockers replaced by robots (Amazon warehouses),
- cashiers are already being pushed out the door with self-checking kiosks (several locations of major retailers), &
- even cops are going to be now out of work.
Thank your fellow entrepreneur & business person for his/her zeal to reduce costs (biggest costs are usually labour costs), & tech companies for coming up of new ways to raise the bar to put food on your table, assuming if your profession still exists.
What we do forget is not every human can become an entrepreneur, or a management guru, or a CEO, or any kind of executive. There can only be so many CEOs & executives. A large majority still needs to work, or simply have a job, in a company, somewhere.
Arab Spring in 2011 started because the public couldn't find enough work to put food on their table. Egyptian youths gathered in Tahrir Square because they couldn't find jobs comparable to their education.
Well, what's going to happen when million more in developed countries are & will keep upgrading their skills through education but unable to find jobs? Whose jobs / careers are next on the chopping block; baristas, janitors, teachers, airline pilots?
And that's even before the complete development & implementation of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" in the modern tech. Frankly, I am not going to even theorize about the situation of labour market after AI comes into play.
As you can imagine many more jobs are, & can be, eliminated with the use of modern technology. Robots don't have families & don't need any food. But humans need jobs to put food on their dinner tables. Where will they go to fill their stomachs?
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Robocop-style law enforcement machines are expected to begin patrolling the streets of Dubai within 2 years.
The robots will become completely automated & require no human input within 5 years, & will be used to monitor shopping malls & bolster local police forces.
Dubai authorities claim the technology - which bears remarkable similarities to the Robocop sci-fi character first unveiled in 1987 - is already well underway.
The popular franchise depicts a superhuman cyborg created from a slain police officer, as he single-handedly wipes out crime from a dystopian Detroit.
Colonel Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi, from Dubai Police's Smart Services Department, said the robots are being designed to help control an ever-increasing population, according to the Khaleej Times.
He said: 'The robots will interact directly with people & tourists. People will be able to ask questions & make complaints, but they will also have fun interacting with the robots.'
He added that in 4 or 5 years' time the machines will be 'fully intelligent robots that can interact with people, with no human intervention at all'.
He made the comments during his keynote speech at a conference currently being held in Dubai dedicated to cyber security threats.
The remarkable development comes as more and more of the world's leading thinkers profess their concerns about the rate at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing unchecked.
Late last year, Professor Stephen Hawking warned that thinking machines could 'spell the end of the human race'.
Speaking at event in London, the physicist told the BBC that developments in AI had so far proven to be beneficial to the human race but we should not be complacent about creating intelligence capable of surpassing that of humans.
He said: 'It would take off on its own, & re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, & would be superseded.'
In November, Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Space-X & Tesla, warned that the risk of 'something seriously dangerous happening' as a result of machines with AI could be in as few as 5 years.
He has previously linked the development of autonomous, thinking machines, to 'summoning the demon'.
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, Musk described artificial intelligence as our 'biggest existential threat'.
He said: 'I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
- accountants out of a job within 10 years (The Economist prediction) with the help of accounting & tax softwares,
- truck drivers out of a job due to self-driving trucks (Daimler trucks),
- chauffeurs & taxi drivers out of jobs with self-driving cars (Google's self-driving cars),
- hotel human staff being made redundant with the help of robot staff (Henn na hotel in Japan),
- shelf stockers replaced by robots (Amazon warehouses),
- cashiers are already being pushed out the door with self-checking kiosks (several locations of major retailers), &
- even cops are going to be now out of work.
Thank your fellow entrepreneur & business person for his/her zeal to reduce costs (biggest costs are usually labour costs), & tech companies for coming up of new ways to raise the bar to put food on your table, assuming if your profession still exists.
What we do forget is not every human can become an entrepreneur, or a management guru, or a CEO, or any kind of executive. There can only be so many CEOs & executives. A large majority still needs to work, or simply have a job, in a company, somewhere.
Arab Spring in 2011 started because the public couldn't find enough work to put food on their table. Egyptian youths gathered in Tahrir Square because they couldn't find jobs comparable to their education.
Well, what's going to happen when million more in developed countries are & will keep upgrading their skills through education but unable to find jobs? Whose jobs / careers are next on the chopping block; baristas, janitors, teachers, airline pilots?
And that's even before the complete development & implementation of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" in the modern tech. Frankly, I am not going to even theorize about the situation of labour market after AI comes into play.
As you can imagine many more jobs are, & can be, eliminated with the use of modern technology. Robots don't have families & don't need any food. But humans need jobs to put food on their dinner tables. Where will they go to fill their stomachs?
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Robocop-style law enforcement machines are expected to begin patrolling the streets of Dubai within 2 years.
The robots will become completely automated & require no human input within 5 years, & will be used to monitor shopping malls & bolster local police forces.
Dubai authorities claim the technology - which bears remarkable similarities to the Robocop sci-fi character first unveiled in 1987 - is already well underway.
The popular franchise depicts a superhuman cyborg created from a slain police officer, as he single-handedly wipes out crime from a dystopian Detroit.
Colonel Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi, from Dubai Police's Smart Services Department, said the robots are being designed to help control an ever-increasing population, according to the Khaleej Times.
He said: 'The robots will interact directly with people & tourists. People will be able to ask questions & make complaints, but they will also have fun interacting with the robots.'
He added that in 4 or 5 years' time the machines will be 'fully intelligent robots that can interact with people, with no human intervention at all'.
He made the comments during his keynote speech at a conference currently being held in Dubai dedicated to cyber security threats.
The remarkable development comes as more and more of the world's leading thinkers profess their concerns about the rate at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing unchecked.
Late last year, Professor Stephen Hawking warned that thinking machines could 'spell the end of the human race'.
Speaking at event in London, the physicist told the BBC that developments in AI had so far proven to be beneficial to the human race but we should not be complacent about creating intelligence capable of surpassing that of humans.
He said: 'It would take off on its own, & re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, & would be superseded.'
In November, Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Space-X & Tesla, warned that the risk of 'something seriously dangerous happening' as a result of machines with AI could be in as few as 5 years.
He has previously linked the development of autonomous, thinking machines, to 'summoning the demon'.
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, Musk described artificial intelligence as our 'biggest existential threat'.
He said: 'I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Avg. American household is WORSE off than in 1983
Everywhere Rich getting richer & Poor keeps getting poorer. Inequality keeps increasing. A tiny portion of the population (in a country & in the world) keeps increasing its wealth w/o regard to any thoughts of how the majority will survive. This sense of entitlement of money will further increase the wealth gap between rich & poor, up to a point, when the majority poor will violently take over the reins of the financial, political, & judicial systems, which in turn, can mean bad times for the rich.
This economic injustice & social inequality is already causing lots of rift & chaos in European societies (austerity measures & unemployment giving rise to far-right political parties, which in turn, giving rise of hatred & discrimination in the society for minorities; religious, ethnic, racial etc.). Greece is threatening to exit EU, & we all have seen the protests in Athens, Madrid, Rome, & of course, who can forget the worldwide occupy movements.
Governments already angling to quell that chaos & before a large section of the society take up arms against the elites, by bringing in "anti-terror" legislation, in which, the definition of word "terrorist" has been deliberately kept vague, so anybody rises up against the elites of the society will be swiftly put down.
Be it international or domestic terrorism, one of the primary reasons is not any religion or power grab. The primary reason is this social inequality. ISIS keeps increasing in numbers because youth unemployment is so high all over Europe & North America. Youths are not seeing a bright future in front of them. They are burdened with education debts & no future with good, secure, permanent employment. On an international scale, whole continents like Africa are still largely undeveloped & have bleak futures.
This hoarding of wealth by a small minority of the world also causing some worldwide problems, like water, food & energy. There is enough wealth in this world that if that wealth had been used appropriately, instead of being hoarded & hidden away in tax havens, our society would have found innovative solutions to water conservation, growing food for the growing population, & new & sustainable ways to power our homes & factories. But much more severe problems like pollution, food shortages, & water shortages will not only becomes much more severe in our future (they already are with whole continents like Australia & US state, California, suffering severe droughts) but much more violence & chaos is awaiting us when a huge majority will finally grows tired of their respective governments & take arms against rich themselves. It will be the French revolution on a worldwide scale.
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The wealth of the average American household declined between 1983 & 2013, according to a leading economist.
Writing in a paper entitled Household Wealth Trends in the US, 1962-2013: What Happened over the Great Recession?, Professor Wolff claimed that America's worth rose partly because technology has improved & productivity has increases.
This means that society as a whole has become better & generating wealth.
The issue, for many, is that this extra wealth has been funnelled into the top 20% of the population, with the top 1% finding themselves 82% better off. However, the bottom 60% has become poorer, Vox.com reported.
Wolff found that the median wealth figure for middle-income families - that means it's been adjusted for inflation - for 1983 was $78,000 & the median wealth figure for 2013 was $63,800.
This economic injustice & social inequality is already causing lots of rift & chaos in European societies (austerity measures & unemployment giving rise to far-right political parties, which in turn, giving rise of hatred & discrimination in the society for minorities; religious, ethnic, racial etc.). Greece is threatening to exit EU, & we all have seen the protests in Athens, Madrid, Rome, & of course, who can forget the worldwide occupy movements.
Governments already angling to quell that chaos & before a large section of the society take up arms against the elites, by bringing in "anti-terror" legislation, in which, the definition of word "terrorist" has been deliberately kept vague, so anybody rises up against the elites of the society will be swiftly put down.
Be it international or domestic terrorism, one of the primary reasons is not any religion or power grab. The primary reason is this social inequality. ISIS keeps increasing in numbers because youth unemployment is so high all over Europe & North America. Youths are not seeing a bright future in front of them. They are burdened with education debts & no future with good, secure, permanent employment. On an international scale, whole continents like Africa are still largely undeveloped & have bleak futures.
This hoarding of wealth by a small minority of the world also causing some worldwide problems, like water, food & energy. There is enough wealth in this world that if that wealth had been used appropriately, instead of being hoarded & hidden away in tax havens, our society would have found innovative solutions to water conservation, growing food for the growing population, & new & sustainable ways to power our homes & factories. But much more severe problems like pollution, food shortages, & water shortages will not only becomes much more severe in our future (they already are with whole continents like Australia & US state, California, suffering severe droughts) but much more violence & chaos is awaiting us when a huge majority will finally grows tired of their respective governments & take arms against rich themselves. It will be the French revolution on a worldwide scale.
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The wealth of the average American household declined between 1983 & 2013, according to a leading economist.
Writing in a paper entitled Household Wealth Trends in the US, 1962-2013: What Happened over the Great Recession?, Professor Wolff claimed that America's worth rose partly because technology has improved & productivity has increases.
This means that society as a whole has become better & generating wealth.
The issue, for many, is that this extra wealth has been funnelled into the top 20% of the population, with the top 1% finding themselves 82% better off. However, the bottom 60% has become poorer, Vox.com reported.
Wolff found that the median wealth figure for middle-income families - that means it's been adjusted for inflation - for 1983 was $78,000 & the median wealth figure for 2013 was $63,800.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Cloud Atlas (Quote # 3)
That's what developed countries have learned & still to be learned by developing countries ... Arab Spring happened because of this & Saudi Arabia after learning this, started to spend millions on social programs.
Monday, January 26, 2015
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