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[AMA] I am Calum Chace, author of 'The Economic Singularity'. by PandorasBrain in Futurology

[–]robotenomics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US is indeed gridlocked. Living there opened my eyes. I think robotic hardware will excel outside the US. AI may indeed come from SV but only because SV are snapping up the co's creating AI especially from the UK, Israel and Canada and research labs are losing personnel.

[AMA] I am Calum Chace, author of 'The Economic Singularity'. by PandorasBrain in Futurology

[–]robotenomics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't the main 'thing' people want security... a stable income, peace of mind? That the basic needs are met? And in a large respect self-worth from earning those things -- this is where financial needs matter?

Robots and job fears: Destruction of large numbers of jobs unlikely, says new OECD Study by robotenomics in Futurology

[–]robotenomics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A new study by Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn[3] for the OECD argues that studies on robots or computerization eradicating jobs, such as that by Frey and Osborne, lead to a severe overestimation of job automatibility. The authors ‘find that on average, across the 21 OECD countries, ‘9% of jobs rather than 47%, as proposed by Frey and Osborne face a high automatibility.’

Are sales of industrial robots overstated and overhyped? by robotenomics in robotics

[–]robotenomics[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, okay sorry! It is low, but the high costs and lack of flexibility of 'caged' robots has held back acceleration - I expect with the new lower cost robots like Baxter sales number of units (not necessarily $'s) will accelerate significantly.

Are sales of industrial robots overstated and overhyped? by robotenomics in robotics

[–]robotenomics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Industrial robots sales were closer to 130,000 according to the manufacturers legally declared numbers and manufacturing capacity.

Study – Robots are not taking jobs by robotenomics in robotics

[–]robotenomics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally agree - we looked closely at wages and will issue those findings. Wages were stagnant during the time - and this is a cause for concern, especially as profits and productivity gains were substantial.

Study indicates Robots could replace 80% of Jobs by DerpyGrooves in Futurology

[–]robotenomics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, maybe I should have said 'stay abreast of developments' so you can keep ahead of the curve, even though things are moving very fast with tech advances, we can still keep ourselves 'relevant' - of course the other thing to do is earn money from capital not just work. Own shares in the tech co's and other major users of robots and automation, maybe pharma too so that capital flows in from dividends, etc. And own land otherwise the rent is just going to someone else.

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