"Mongo"
Generation Automation
Generation Automation
Will society benefit from continued industrial automation? Robotics and automated processes are replacing thousands of humans in the workplace, in the main but not exclusively the lower skilled occupations that thousands of individuals and their famillies rely on. My concern is as automated technology advances into various industries and occupations, low-skilled individuals will be left with little or no future employment prospects, it boils down to capitalists who motivated by greed choose automation over people and the enviroment in order to reap more and more monetary rewards.
Automated technologies are beneficial in 'human' high risk work areas, and should be limited to use in these areas, however implementing automated processes in 'human low risk' work areas will result in ever increasing numbers of predominately low-skilled workers being squeezed out of the workplace, this can only lead to a new and impoverished underclass as well as impacting negatively on society.
There will always be a low-skilled workforce demographic within every country in the world, for obvious reasons, so will industrial productivity through increased automation really benefit society or does it just serve corporate greed and profitability? Are future automated processes really progression or will they eventually contribute to the break down of society into a two class system, the wealthy affluent skilled, and the 'underclass' of unskilled (SNLR's) 'Services No Longer Required' poor?
These automated technologies are slowly drip feeding into various roles, occupations and industries, this is deemed progression and is promoted as such through various mediums to the masses by the minority of 'mover & shaker' capitalists?
"Robots do not need jobs, people do!".
Update: 15 April 2010
The flagship library in my home city employed 10 librarians who gave valuable advice and assistance to people of all ages and abilities, they were a great source of information and for many older people they played an important role in their daily social interactions. Eight have now been 'replaced' by an 'automated system' with the only human input being reduced to limited reception cover at busy periods by the two remaining Librarians.
(Q) Is this really progression?
Generation Automation
Generation Automation
Will society benefit from continued industrial automation? Robotics and automated processes are replacing thousands of humans in the workplace, in the main but not exclusively the lower skilled occupations that thousands of individuals and their famillies rely on. My concern is as automated technology advances into various industries and occupations, low-skilled individuals will be left with little or no future employment prospects, it boils down to capitalists who motivated by greed choose automation over people and the enviroment in order to reap more and more monetary rewards.
Automated technologies are beneficial in 'human' high risk work areas, and should be limited to use in these areas, however implementing automated processes in 'human low risk' work areas will result in ever increasing numbers of predominately low-skilled workers being squeezed out of the workplace, this can only lead to a new and impoverished underclass as well as impacting negatively on society.
There will always be a low-skilled workforce demographic within every country in the world, for obvious reasons, so will industrial productivity through increased automation really benefit society or does it just serve corporate greed and profitability? Are future automated processes really progression or will they eventually contribute to the break down of society into a two class system, the wealthy affluent skilled, and the 'underclass' of unskilled (SNLR's) 'Services No Longer Required' poor?
These automated technologies are slowly drip feeding into various roles, occupations and industries, this is deemed progression and is promoted as such through various mediums to the masses by the minority of 'mover & shaker' capitalists?
"Robots do not need jobs, people do!".
Update: 15 April 2010
The flagship library in my home city employed 10 librarians who gave valuable advice and assistance to people of all ages and abilities, they were a great source of information and for many older people they played an important role in their daily social interactions. Eight have now been 'replaced' by an 'automated system' with the only human input being reduced to limited reception cover at busy periods by the two remaining Librarians.
(Q) Is this really progression?