The rise of the robots is happening. The robotic age will reshape human development at least as much as the computer age that we are in now and the industrial age that preceded us.
- Fast Food Worker – “Momentum Machines just unveiled a robot capable of flipping burgers and slicing veggies at a rate of one burger every 10 seconds.”
- Drivers – “Google announced last fall that it was working on automated cars as a way to increase safety and help humans reduce the time spent commuting to work. With human supervisors in the passenger seat, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control.”
- Pilots – “now that drones can fly over land in the U.S., commercial flight pilots might be similarly replaced.”
- Astronauts - Equipped with a wide array of sensors and dexterous five fingered hands, it will initially handle menial jobs such as cleaning the spacestation and assisting humans in space operations.”
- Telemarketers – Search “robot telemarker” on YouTube for a demonstration.
- Store clerks – “ATM machines reduce the need for bank tellers, virtual assistants can answer the phone 24 hours a day, and self-service machines are reducing the need for checkout clerks.”
- Reporters – “AP now plans to generate and sell thousands of automated business articles a year. The robot-written stories will bring up the AP's story count in this area by an order of magnitude, Poynter reports. Over the past few years, several news organizations have used robot writers for some of their stories. Forbes uses algorithms from the startup Narrative Science to find and write short stories about companies whose stocks are doing well. The Los Angeles Times uses bots, developed by one of its own journalists, to publish immediate reports about area earthquakes and homicides. The AP will use business reports generated by a company called Automated Insights, Poynter reports.
- Sportswriters – “After a game, scorekeepers e-mail game data to Narrative Science, which feeds it into a computer and spits out a story in minutes.”
- Lawyers and paralegals – “Blackstone Discovery of Palo Alto, CA provided software that helped analyze 1.5 million documents for less than $100,000. “People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don’t.
- Doctors – “a combo of medical record clouds and robotic surgeons could eliminate the need for human medics”
- Pharmacists – “Machines assemble doses onto a thin plastic ring that contains all the medications for a patient for a 12-hour period, which is bar-coded.”
- Recruiters – “The use of people analytics continues post hire to further develop, nurture and retain talent.”
- Soldiers – “the robot is equipped with a GPS monitor; it can be programmed to differentiate between fire and no-fire zones, to open doors, and even to drag out injured bodies.”
- Farm workers – “Now engineers are developing intelligent machines to do farm work and help ease a worsening labor shortage on American farms.”
- Babysitters – “perfect for "whoever does not have a lot time to stay with child," according to a vendor and NEC’s PaPeRo robot, which tells jokes, gives quizzes, and can track kids using a radio-frequency identification chip.”
- Teachers – “Computers hold all of our knowledge anyway, so this is pretty much inevitable. A robot teacher could simply recite Wikipedia articles, break up fights, send kids to the robo-principal — all without a teacher’s union.”
- Artists – “Robots can fly a plane and perform surgery better than humans, but only we can create beautiful works of art, right? Nope, robots are already there.”
- Rescuers – “the most useful robots could be aerial drones that can provide aerial inspections or ROV’s, which can help locate underwater objects and determine the condition of bridges and pipelines, according to the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University.”
- Prostitutes – “The movie “A.I.” predicted android gigolos in 2001, and now a sex robot actually exists.”
- Singers – “Auto-Tune was the beginning, but robotic opera singers and pop music automation are already here. Soon, computers will be able to write, perform and predict the formula of hit songs. If you think some pop stars are manufactured now, what if they were literally built in a factory?”
- Robot Engineers – “The ultimate science-fiction nightmare: Robots that can build themselves. It’s already happening.”
Most remaining factory jobs are "likely to diminish over the next decades," they write. Cashiers, counter clerks, and telemarketers are similarly endangered. On the far right side of this graph, you can see the industry breakdown of the 47 percent of jobs they consider at "high risk."
The darker side of robotics:
Except for just one thing: the only real reason laborer populations are tolerated by the rich and powerful who really control the world is because laborers are needed to run the economy. Someone needs to pick the crops, sweep the floors and do the dry cleaning, in other words. Once capable humanoid robots transition into all the jobs currently carried out by flesh-and-blood humans, there will be no further need for a large segment of the human population.
Robotics revolution to replace most human workers in three generations; labor class to be systematically eliminated – Natural News, September 29, 2013