tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post6228549500758379124..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: From ENIAC and EMERAC to ... HAL and Siri Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-15012795941396326612017-04-17T20:42:24.136-07:002017-04-17T20:42:24.136-07:00Yes, that carrying it on their heads then contribu...Yes, that carrying it on their heads then contributes to the nearly 50% that cannot be automated.<br />It is based on economics--it is from McKinsey. <br />Here's an example to think about it: Take automobile production in India. The high degree of automation in the industry means that auto manufacturing no longer needs as many humans as labor as it once needed. Which is a major reason why the auto manufacturing industry when growing in India does not have the kind of job-growth implications that it once had. Even in India, manufacturing might bring in rupees but not as many jobs as it once did.<br /><br />Understanding the implications of automation has become a high enough priority that the US National Academies of Sciences commissioned a report on it: <br />https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-must-track-how-technology-is-changing-work/Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-84406016756456435752017-04-17T09:05:44.004-07:002017-04-17T09:05:44.004-07:00I got 2 out of 3. Since you lot don't speak En...I got 2 out of 3. Since you lot don't speak English, I didn't understand what a "freight mover" is and thought it was eminently automatable.<br /><br />Disagree with the chart. It does not take economics into consideration when it says jobs are automatable. Sure much of jobs in the poor world are automatable today with yesterday's technology, but they aren't simply because they are not economically worthwhile. We don't move stocks in pallets which are fork lifted. Instead people move it by carrying it on their heads.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com