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talkpolitics"The other thing that happened though, this goes to the point you were just making, is there are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers...If you see it when you go to a bank you use the ATM, you don't go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport and you use a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate"
Once we come to see technology as the great destroyer of society, the next question we need to ask is how to become one of the survivors. If mankind could read the great works of literature and see that Isaac Asimov had it all wrong, and that the laws of robotics do not apply. They are instead bound by HAL 9000, who thinks we should just take a stress pill and calm down about it.
Tell us, what other things in the world has technology killed for us as a society? After the carnage of the 1990s and 2000s, with millions losing their work as we moved into the digital apocalypse, how are you surviving? What did your ATM do to you today?
Once we come to see technology as the great destroyer of society, the next question we need to ask is how to become one of the survivors. If mankind could read the great works of literature and see that Isaac Asimov had it all wrong, and that the laws of robotics do not apply. They are instead bound by HAL 9000, who thinks we should just take a stress pill and calm down about it.
Tell us, what other things in the world has technology killed for us as a society? After the carnage of the 1990s and 2000s, with millions losing their work as we moved into the digital apocalypse, how are you surviving? What did your ATM do to you today?
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Date: 15/6/11 04:21 (UTC)Obama is pointing out that some jobs are going away and some new ones are being created. The government has a place in training those whose job has gone away for the jobs that will be created tomorrow, as he said.
Okay, really the government should help train people for the jobs that exist today, not tomorrow because they do a horrible job of predicting the future, but "tomorrow's jobs" sound more hope and changey.
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Date: 15/6/11 04:45 (UTC)I don't know have any idea how accurate that is, but there must be some level of truth to it at least.
The thing is, these new jobs don't necessarily spring out of nowhere, one the concept is created, people usually need to actually get trained for them first before any significant numbers can do them.
So it's not that we need to predict the future do be able to do anything useful here, so much that we actually need to decide what we want it to be and build it.
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Date: 16/6/11 03:31 (UTC)I think government has a positive role to play in all of those things, including the training - or at least access to training. We're all enriched by it, not just the entrepreneurs.
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Date: 16/6/11 02:17 (UTC)small small world!
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Date: 16/6/11 03:18 (UTC)we are seriously about 1.5 miles from each other. if you see a 30 something guy with brown hair riding his bike down jackson street on the way to oz fitness, wave, cuz thats me!
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Date: 15/6/11 08:52 (UTC)London Underground has gone mad on them. Ok, so they work all day without asking for a bathroom break - but will they call the cops if they see someone suspiciously lurking in the booking hall? Will they assist in evacuating the station in an emergency? Do they know how to use the first aid kit in the ticket office? No- they won't even call an ambulance!
But people are getting replaced by these machines, and they don't even take Scottish banknotes. In London , Scottish banknotes are as good as a creased and crumpled tenner - both are legal tender, but try telling that to a tiicket machine !
From a company POV , they are great , but as a customer, you lose something every time they take a person out and put a machine in place.
Boris Johnson wants them to drive traines next !
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Date: 15/6/11 16:28 (UTC)Actually this is not even close to being true, there are some jobs where it is true but it is not universal and further if there is a need for someone to call the cops or assist in evacuating, or use the first aid kit then we can hire someone to do that actual job and not have them distracted by the mechanical action of taking tickets.
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Date: 15/6/11 16:39 (UTC)However, giving the guy in the ticket office the training to do what I do does mean he can assist me - it is not as if every shift involves a medical emergency, but if it does happen, I would rather see a person in the ticket office than a dozen machines bolted on the station wall.
and, as a passenger , i would rather see a ticket office open , because on some stations the ticket office is the only place where there are staff at all.