Robotics/Innovation/New Tech

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Mar 21, 2016 20:52:58 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Re: post #57...

-Robots could soon deliver pizzas in New Zealand
-This Factory Robot Learns a New Job Overnight
-Dairy farms go high-tech with robots

Zoox Gets Permit to Test Self-Driving Vehicles for Uber-Like Robo Cars

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-Chinese tycoon flaunts wealth by going shopping with 8 robotic maids
-China's realistic robot Jia Jia can chat with real humans

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This adds an interesting variable into the immigration equation; Robots have their eyes on food service, manufacturing jobs

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Feb 6, 2014 0:00:25 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

Continuing on where we left off in 2012...

The Robots are Coming!!

Globalization of the manufacturing industry has helped push the industrial revolution that started in the west around the world. Dangerous factory work in the early 1900's helped create a prosperous middle class that could afford the vehicles they were producing. This gave birth to the service industry that employs close to 90% of the western population today.

This exact cycle is happening all over Asia, and for the first time in history the service industry in Asia has become the biggest part of the economy in 2013. High end luxury brands from clothing to cars are enjoying robust sales all throughout Asia. The median income has been rising at double digits for years, which means that the low wages that brought manufacturing to Asia, and China in particular, have been evaporating.

This trend has been the catalyst for a new cycle. One that has started slow, but is assured to grow as more and more people around the globe rise out of poverty and look for opportunities at home, instead of immigrating to the west for a better life. The new trend is robotics. Most are all familiar with robotics on the production line, however, in recent years the rise of the service robot has been growing slowly and silently. Today, there are robots that can make perfect hamburgers, Google and GM are in the process of developing automated cars that they are hoping will be on the road by 2020, Amazon is using robots in their distribution centers, and there are various companies developing robots that can be used in the medical field.

You might be thinking, how is this a good thing? Won't the robots eventually take all of our jobs? The same questions were being asked in the 1800s when the industrial revolution first began. Power looms, the telegraph machine, and automobiles were all going to make human beings obsolete. What happened is new industries came along and provided more opportunities and a better standard of living. These same opportunities are presenting themselves today for savvy investors and business people who embrace change and the future.

Accepting changes and finding opportunities working with new technology has been the trait of good investors and business people since the invention of the wheel. Regardless of your personal opinion on the Terminator, make no mistake about it, the robots are coming!

Apr 7, 2015 16:06:37 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

‎The concept that robots are going to steal jobs and take over the human race is firmly rooted in science fiction - and fiction is exactly what that line of thinking is. In reality robots  won't steal jobs, they will be part of the solution to structural issues that some think are a huge problem right now; the first being the aging population. 

Robots will fill many of the jobs that are projected to be vacant due to an aging workforce over the next 20 years, the current generation of robots clearly demonstrate that - just think about 20 years from now.

 Another big issue that robots will help fix as they become more mainstream is fiscal deficits. Because we will be making as much with less there will be more money in the system, which will prevent massive failures in programs like social security.

In reality, it's looking like robots will be the furthest thing from job stealers. In fact, it is starting to look like they will be the glue that ends up holding the global economy together over the long term. The harsh reality of our history is that the greatest leaps in our advancement have been when there were large pools of cheap labour to draw on, freeing up "the ones on top" to put their energy and money towards huge projects. 

For the first time in history  we are operating as a true global unit and the vast pool of cheap labour needed to propel this aging debt filled society past the outcome of our ancestors isn't other human beings. They are creations of technology, brought to you by industry that was funded by the love not war business model, which was put into action a couple thousands years ago by the Messiah. All to correct the 20,000+ years of war lead economic development of our past, filled with the unspeakable things that still echo through to today.  

RISE OF THE ROBOT A four-part look at how robots are changing the way we work. First up, robots aren’t killing jobs, they’re creating new ones and more of them

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Why Robots Won't Cause Mass Unemployment

The lamenters don’t seem to understand that increased productivity in one industry frees up resources and laborers for other industries, and, since increased productivity means increased real wages, demand for goods and services will increase as well. They seem to have a nonsensical apocalyptic view of a fully automated future with piles and piles of valuable goods everywhere, but nobody can enjoy them because nobody has a job. I invite the worriers to check out simple supply and demand analysis and Say’s Law.

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The robophobic are also worried about income inequality — all the greedy capitalists will take advantage of the increased productivity of the automated techniques and fire all of their employees. Unemployment will rise as we run out of jobs for humans to do, they say.

This fear is unreasonable for three reasons. First of all, how could these greedy capitalists make all their money without a large mass of consumers to purchase their products? If the majority of people are without incomes because of automation, then the majority of people won’t be able to help line the pockets of the greedy capitalists.

Second, there will always be jobs because there will always be scarcity. Human wants are unlimited, diverse, and ever-changing, yet the resources we need to satisfy our desires are limited. The production of any good requires labor and entrepreneurship, so humans will never become unnecessary.

Finally, Say’s Law implies that the profitability of producing all other goods will increase after a technological advancement in the production of one good. Real wages can increase because the greedy robot-using capitalists now have increased demands for all other goods. I hope the following scenario makes this clear

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and a crossover from farming and the current state of food production thread = why immigration tides are changing.

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