Race Against the Machine: Andrew McAfee at TEDxBoston
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"We ain't seen nothing yet when it comes to technology's impact on the labor force." Automation redefined blue collar employment and reshaped a global economy. Now, technology is replacing higher skilled jobs by augmenting human brainpower the way steam engines augmented human labor. Andrew McAfee braces us for a fundamental transformation in the future of work. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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one year left then siri should be as he said 16 times better. anyone keeping score?
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Robots don't buy cars youtube
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Interesting Talk, for sure. And definitely the basic thesis is true (economy will become extremely digitalized and even more automatized and politicial solutions have to be found for the new resulting conditions).
But: Some of the arguments are (or at least seem to me as if being) nonsense.
E.g. the argument of the graph (around 09:00): The argument there is, that culture, plagues, empires, religions and exploration were just mockery, because they (seemingliy) didn't influence the amount of human population, whilst technology did extremely, which shall show that technology is the most important branch of all.
Well, think about that:
Condoms, anti-pregnancy pills and nuclear weapons are technological improvements, too. But did they 'bend the curve (upwards)'?! No, the opposite is true. – But still I wouldn't wanna miss at least the first two of them, and I'm pretty sure you guys wouldn't, too.
And (not even mentioning the cross-effects of arts, science, explorations... and technology): Undoubtedly the best that ever happend to the amount of, let's say, chicken population was factory farming. (Probably the amount increased by factor 50k between 1900 and today). But that says nothing at all about the quality(!) of their lives. – At least: I wouldn't like the live a technologically determined live of one of nowaydays chickens. Would you? -
Actually, great part of the population explosion is due to the progress in biological sciences. Throughout history people were dying all the time. In the 20th century they started to die less and less.
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We will build a wall and the silicon valley will pay for it!
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Well if on the earth fewer jobs needed. Than should we expand to the universe :D
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awesome awsome speach
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Your job will be automated. Please investigate a resource based economy.
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doesn't change the fact that there will be a scramble natural resources, the only reason why rich people put up with poor people is because they need them but with all these machines, the poor will only be an obstacle that should be eradicated i dunno but you but i wanna be on the rich side.
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well I find not much support... at all? for this hope and optimism that it will improve everyone's lives. there's also not much support in this talk at all. some basic technologies will help alleviate core problems like the indian example. nonstop automation already is strictly for the biggest corporations of the world, used strictly for profits of the already richest people of the world. whether in manufacturing, or WAY LESS TALKED ABOUT FINANCIAL industry, where they have algorithms doing trading automatically already. they also tap a lot of fiber internet cables around the world to see things ahead of other people to get an advantage. the future is grim.
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Fuck yeah technology is amazing. Utopian futures ahead, all aboard! <3
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they took r jerbs
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I just cannot understand why is it how every guy working with computers and AI on a daily basis be so blind to to teh rest of the world. They keep saying that technology will only make life better and completely disregard that technology created stuff like the nuclear bomb. During the cold war the entire human race was just 1 button press from global extinction. How do they dare to claim that the word only become better when just more people will be able to gain more destructive power and one person will be able to do more and more harm.
As for droids taking our jobs, yes It is painfully obvious that this is happening and while humanity will be "freed" from labor they will have not be able to enjoy that freedom because they will have no money to what they want. The gap between the rich and poor will be even more wider than it is today we are literally getting to the point where the lives of these billions will become meaningless and more importantly "unnecessary" to those in power. And if millions of human lives are unnecessary then you know something is horribly wrong. -
"We ain't seen nothing yet" is a double negative so that means we have seen something...
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Why would that man be wearing glasses at 2:47?
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I wonder if humans freaked out in the same way when fire was discovered. Great talk, even if technology scares some people, it is here and moving fast, I for one want to understand it as best I can and that is why I really love TEDx talks.
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In order for humanity to reap the benefits of the machine age, a profound change in our value system would have to take place. A change that is antithetical to everything that the current, mostly capitalist society bases itself around. Unfortunately, not only is such a change not taking place, many places of the world are actually going backwards in their thinking, meaning this utopian dream where humanity no longer has to work for a living and is free to pursue other, more intellectual goals is exactly that, a dream. And one that will be a nightmare for most of humanity when they find out they are now obsolete thanks to the unstoppable march of science and technology.
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We already have enough unemployment as it is
I can see Elites handling this 3 ways:
1) Killing vast amounts of newly unemployed with drones and military.
2) Welfare for the Newly Unemployed,1-2 child policy depending on the country and Mandatory Forced sterilization.
3) Status Quo: Use military to protect elites and there Private Property as the former Working class will kill each other off in the streets. -
Great talk Dan, the world is changing fast and we all need to be thinking about how to evolve and keep the economy growing.
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The most likely scenario is poverty an extinction for those losing their jobs. Don't even feel pity for them. Did they care about giving farm animals horrible lives? Did they care about the billions living in poverty? Did they move a finger to save hundreds of thousands of species forced to extinction? They will be treated as they deserve. Only a huge shift in consciousness could save the masses but that have to happen when they have something to sacrifice. I am sure they all will have their egoistic, materialistic and capitalistic blindfolds falling when it is too late...
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