Robots getting better....

[Zachstar]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/n...se-boasts-tot/

Machinery's robotic delivery system (pictured above) which is designed to help in places like hospitals, delivering medications late at night so that nurses and aids don't have to spend a lot of time on such tasks.

The warning currently is that most if not all service related jobs will be done by robots by 2025. I personally think that is off by about 5 years because of news like this.

In my view.

2010 Robots doing basic assistance. Mainly standing around and waiting to be commanded to produce something or flipping switches or whatnot at a certain time. This will cause a few jobs to be replaced.

2013 Robots start gaining better command systems and sensors. Now a few will be able to do such tasks as cooking simple meals. and organizing in warehouses. A more serious job loss results.

2015 Robots start seriously taking the place of humans in a variety of different jobs. By this point it is safe to say humans will compete with robots for a job at McDonalds.

2017 Half the service workforce is replaced by robots. However at this time Mineral and food prices start to fall dramatically as robots are now useful in exploiting resources or caring for plants.

2019 Robot become more standardized and start to be mass produced which drops prices across the board. The large amount of job loss means unemployment requests skyrocket. But with taxes from more businesses that can economically pay them with robots working 24/7 it works out.

2020 Skynet... No just kidding! By this point I think its safe to say that robots will have changed the face of civilization.

[SteamWake]

Reminds me of the claims of the 'Paperless office' in the 80's ... anyhow I posted on this subject last week and it went ignored for the most part.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...03#post1053703

[Zachstar]

Today's offices are more and more paperless. And besides there will always be a use for human labor in certain applications (Software design, The arts)

But the pace of development is astounding. Instead of talking about it like in the glory days of "Danger Will Robinson" Todays robots are actually doing things.

Look at it from a store managers point of view.

Pay 2 cooks minimum wage and they only work part time. Or pay 20-30 thousand and get a robot that will cook and assist. But after closing will spend the night cleaning up the store.

That isnt very far off. And with a price like that they will sell like hotcakes because of the huge amount of productivity and return on investment.

[XabbaRus]

I don't know where you work, but it can't be an engineering and design office.

In my job there is paper for my drawings down to the factory, paper for the certificates which are duplicated.

Then we have the data books so more certs and duplication of drawings. A3 drawings for checking, marking up.

Offices are definately not more paperless. In fact in the oil industry with all the trails need they are more paperful.

[Zachstar]

I'm talking the average office not the "paper trail or fail" .gov or whatever.

After the rape the companies had in the 90s over the cost of ink carts. The move to Electronic has been more pronounced. And with tablet PCs netbooks and other small devices. The paper use has fallen a great deal.

Anyway thats off topic.

[XabbaRus]

Hmm I paper trail or fail. In the oil industry it is about safety and tracibility and in order to do that you can't go wrong with having a hard copy. I'll also think you'll find the average office has just as much paper as before.