One in three jobs will be taken by software or robots by 2025

[madville]

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691607/one-in-three-jobs-will-be-taken-by-software-or-robots-by-2025.html


The article kind of sucks but I get the message and agree. Automation, robots, drones, software, etc are going to eliminate many more jobs in the next decade. Learning how to program and maintain such things could be a good field to get into.

We are already seeing it, hotels and airlines with the self check-in lines, self check-out at the grocery store. I'm expecting to see customer kiosks and automated ordering at fast food restaurants any day, or just use an app on your smart phone.

Service sector employment will be ravaged and that is were we have seen the recent growth. What will people do when there are only 2/3 the jobs for humans 10 years from now that we see and realize today?

[yeoman6987]

1. Oh yeah!

Fast food restaurants especially. Many are starting to use IPads for customers to order. Front lines will be obsolete soon with credit card and automated ordering. I don't know how soon robots will make the food though.

[arcane1]

2. I'm hoping I can remain in that gooey middle between software and user until I can retire :)

[madville]

4. I've been doing electronics for 15 years

Mainly RF and RADAR, another 10 or so years until the new robot overlords take over and I'll be OK!

[NightWatcher]

3. Her name is Yoshimi. She's a black belt in karate...

It's demading to defeat those evil machines.

[davidpdx]

5. Yep

I traveled this summer and the airlines want you to check-in online and use a kiosk at the airport.

[NBachers]

6. I don't see any robot plumbers on the way . . .

[AZ Progressive]

7. Do tech nerds enjoy being job killers?

A lot of people affected by their work should go and protest in Silicon Valley.

[newthinking]

8. It is not tech workers, it is owners.

We have known this was coming for many years. In the past they said it would lead to a paradise where we would all work less as we shared the benefits of productivity and technology.
Problem is, as we advance the rich just want to keep all of societies' benefits.

[Recursion]

9. Most wheat threshers' jobs were destroyed by windmills

The answer is not to keep people doing unnecessary work. The answer is to pay people for the things that still need to be done.

[bluedigger]

10. Not to worry.

By the time ebola finishes with the working classes, there should be just enough of us left to maintain the machines that serve the Masters.