The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future 8 docx

... Amazon Copyright©2009byMartinR.Ford  AllRightsReserved, including the right of reproduction in wholeor in part in anyform.  Published in the UnitedStatesbyAcculant™Publishing.  Library of CongressCataloging -in- PublicationData Ford,MartinR. The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future /MartinFord p.cm. Incl...

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... of the tunnel walls are growingdark.Nowweseethatmany of the verybrightest lights in the tunnel finallyfeel the impact and alsobeginto losetheirlight. The owners of the businesses in the tunnel areseeingmuch of theirwealthgraduallydrainaway. The ... eliminate evenkeyemployeesthattheyformerlyfeltwerecrucialto theiroperations.Asthishappens,webeginto...

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... voice -automation technology. ” 19  Thisisone of the reasonsthatIdidnotincludeoff- shoring in our tunnel simulation.Wecouldhavesimulated anoffshoredjobasanaveragelightflickeringout in one part of the tunnel and then ... drink coffeeatStarbucks. In terms of unitdemandformoderate- lypricedpersonalproductslikecellphonesormp3play- ers,acashiermayc...

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... this process is in collecting, copying, collating and faxing in- formation. The intellectualportion of the job—eitherap- provingordenying the loan—isprobablyalreadyessential- lyhandledbyacomputer.Throughout the economy, there   * Formoreonrobotics and itspotentialimpactonemployment and on ... businesses over...

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... shoulders of American and Europeanconsumers. And aswehavenotedagain and again in thisbook,those Westernconsumersalldependonjobs.If automation be- ginstodramaticallyimpactemployment in China,whileat the sametimedemanddwindles in the West and certain- lyif the catastrophiceventdescribed at the beginning of thischapteroccurs—thenthiseconomicperpetualmotion...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... to decline.Rememberthatwearetalkinghereaboutaverage workers.Toget the graphabove,youmighttake the dis- tribution of incomes in the UnitedStates and thenelimi- nateboth the richest and the poorestpeople.Thengraph the averageincome of the remaining“typical”people (the bulk of ... $1, 081 ,000 Canthisprocesscontinueforever?Aswesaw in the previous chapter,...

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... conservative readerislikelytoviolentlyrecoilfromthisidea.Isthisnot the worstform of RobinHoodsocialism?AmInotpro- posingtostealfromthosewhohaveworkedhardtobuild abusiness and thensimplygive the proceedstomasses of indolentpeople in returnfordoingnothing? IwillarguethatIamproposingnone of thesethings. Putyourself in the place of ... problem...

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... dramatically negative. In the UnitedStates,twothirds of workers and thereforeconsumers—donothaveacollegedegree.While effortstoimproveeducation and trainingarelaudable, the realityisthatthisisnotlikelytooffset the impact of geo- metrically accelerating technology. In fact,Ithinkthat the THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL ... have strongeducations and training.T...

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... simulate the workings of the brain.Onceresearchersgainanunderstanding of the basic operating principles of the brain, it may be possible to build an artificial intelligence ... Amazon  56 “Frenchstudentsshy of realworld”,BBCNews,March14,20 08.  Web: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7293992.stm 57 BlueBrainProject,Web:http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/...

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... Drive- throughbanksprovidedausefulconveniencetocustom- ers and alsooftenofferedextendedhours of operation. The pointIammakinghereisthatoffshoringisreally a precursor of automation.  Offshoring is what you do THE LIGHTS IN THE ... drink coffeeatStarbucks. In terms of unitdemandformoderate- lypricedpersonalproductslikecellphonesormp3play...

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