Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:14:24 -0500
From: mark <whitroth@5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] 5 jobs that robots already have taken
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or years now, some researchers have been anticipating that robots would
take away jobs from humans. In the UK, Deloitte and the University of
Oxford predicted that 10 million unskilled jobs could be taken over by
robots. University of Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael
Osborne estimated in 2013 that 47 percent of total U.S. jobs could be
automated and taken over by computers by 2033.

Some experts say not to worry because technology has always created new
jobs while eliminating old ones ones, displacing but not replacing
workers. But lately, as technology has become more sophisticated, the
drumbeat of worry has intensified. \342\200\234What\342\200\231s different now?\342\200\235 asked Leigh
Watson Healy, chief analyst at market research firm Outsell. \342\200\234The pace of
technology advancements plus the big data phenomenon lead to a whole new
level of machines to perform higher level cognitive tasks.\342\200\235 Translated:
the old formula of creating more demanding jobs that need advanced
training may no longer hold true. The number of people needed to oversee
the machines, and to create them, is limited. Where do the many whose
occupations have become obsolete go?
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<http://fortune.com/2015/02/25/5-jobs-that-robots-already-are-taking/>

         mark