ROBOTIC NATION
In the Robotic Nation by Marshall Brain he is explaining his reasons of why he thinks that the world is going to be completely run by Robots in about 40-50 years. He talks about how jobs will be taken over by robots that can do simple jobs and pretty much take away the whole blue collar job system. Also he explains why the robotic industry rapidly expands what he does by each year. In the Article he discusses how the world will change in the upcoming 20 years or so and how the world is going to have to adapt to all of the changes.
Marshall says that we are slowly losing our jobs to robots because of how robotics are simply getting better and better. For instance the way that the we pay at a Home depot store or Wal-Mart with the whole cash yourself out registers that have no need for an actual person to be there. Also like how you can just go to an ATM and get as much money out as you would like, Well if you can afford it that is. Also he is using Moore’s law to make a point of how CPU’s are highly advancing with each passing year. “You have probably heard about Moore's Law. It says that CPU power doubles every 18 to 24 months or so.” Marshall says in his article to explain how CPU’s are progressing further and further.
Brain mentions that jobs already are at a loss and it will just get worse as the years pass. Just in the fast food industry there are about 35,000 jobs that will be lost to Robots, That is if robots will actually take over jobs such as those. Brain also mentions that Robots will take over construction jobs and travel and right there is about 10 million jobs lost with just those two fields of work. He also says that they are saying that there will be away to employ the unemployed by this time with a job that no one has even come up with an idea for yet.
I do not believe what he says because the government probably will not allow this to happen because of the high percentage for unemployment especially for the United States. We are already in a type of depression and this will just make it worse even though he is saying that it will be in the year 2040. Robots should just be used for certain jobs and not every job known to man if that is the case then what is the use for man when this happens? I do believe what he is saying might happen but I still don’t think that it will be allowed just because what it will do to the economy and the culture of the U.S.
Moore’s law is certainly a valid law because it has been the truth for a good 20 years or so now and it does not seem to be slowing down at all. Computers are always going out of date with new and more advanced programming and technologies just take example of mice it went from ball mice to optical and now to wireless optical mice what is next? Maybe you can move the mouse with your mind? Who knows with all the advances in technology so rapidly happening. Brain says in his article “A CPU in the 2040 time frame could have the processing power of a human brain, and it will cost $1,000.” I don’t know if it will come to be that fast because after all it is a human brain that comes up with the technology to make this type of things but after all it is technology and it is always surprising.
All the Brain says could come true in the mere future but I that is a long ways away 50 years or so from now. There could be robots taking over our jobs but there is a chance that they won’t be that advanced yet and we will still have our blue collar jobs to work at and support our families with. We can not know for sure what will happen in the next couple decades but I think it can only lead to good things to come for our country and the people who live in it.
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Personal Essay
After graduating High school I decided to take a year off of school to figure out what I wanted to do. I worked at a restaurant in Dartmouth, Massachusetts called Percy’s Place as a Prep cook and a Dishwasher. I started at the job before I graduated high school and I would only work weekends but when school ended I lucked out and landed a full time job. At that time I thought a full time job at a restaurant was the best thing in the world but I soon found out that it was not.
As time went by working my summer away I loved it and I was making a lot of friends and learning a lot about the way things ran and also about the business of a restaurant and how things were made. I found out all little secrets about dishwashing fast and efficiently like spray off all the plates after putting them in the crates to wash them also that washing the floor before closing was a great idea if it was not a busy day. Also at that time I was very shy and I really did not talk to many people that I worked with unless I absolutely had too. Around this time I started becoming friends with a girl that worked out in the front of the restaurant her name is Dana she would always try and talk to me so I would come out of my shell. Dana was the last person you would expect to be a waitress at a restaurant. She was a very nervous person she would also tell me how she should not be a waitress because of the fact that she does not like to talk in front of people or talk to people she does not know. From her telling me all this it got me really comfortable talking to her because we were pretty much exactly alike. I worked there that whole summer but I planned to go to college in the fall but that was quickly delayed.
I applied to go to Bristol Community College at the beginning of summer to see if I could get into any type of program that I liked but I really could not decide what I wanted to do so I never ended up going. So instead I kept my full time job at the restaurant but this time around I did not love it so much it fell into new management and it made the place stricter and not as much fun. I know it is a job and it’s not supposed to be fun but a little bit wouldn’t hurt. We now had to were uniforms and we could only have a 15 minute lunch break and I for one take a long time to eat so that wasn’t good for me. I am not one to say how I feel so I just went about my work like I always did and I did this for about another year and by.
This time I realized how that I wanted to be a chief so I applied for college again.
About a month later I got an acceptance letter saying that I was accepted to go into the culinary arts program at BBC. By the time I had to pay for school I realized I did not want anything to do with making food because of my job and how much I hated. So I went another year of working at the restaurant but now I just went about it like any other job I just did what I had to do and leave. I would just try and do the best I could from what I had to do and then try and get out as fast as I could.
I went about this for a couple months and finally realized that I needed to go to college.
So this time I applied for financial aid and everything else I needed to actually go threw with it. I decided just to go for the normal classes just to get going until I find out what I want to do with the rest of my life but I do know that I do not want to be stuck working at a restaurant for the rest of my life. After my 2 years of not going to school I realized that I needed to do something with my life and get a better education and try and get a good job that I will be able to support myself on for a long time to come.
As time went by working my summer away I loved it and I was making a lot of friends and learning a lot about the way things ran and also about the business of a restaurant and how things were made. I found out all little secrets about dishwashing fast and efficiently like spray off all the plates after putting them in the crates to wash them also that washing the floor before closing was a great idea if it was not a busy day. Also at that time I was very shy and I really did not talk to many people that I worked with unless I absolutely had too. Around this time I started becoming friends with a girl that worked out in the front of the restaurant her name is Dana she would always try and talk to me so I would come out of my shell. Dana was the last person you would expect to be a waitress at a restaurant. She was a very nervous person she would also tell me how she should not be a waitress because of the fact that she does not like to talk in front of people or talk to people she does not know. From her telling me all this it got me really comfortable talking to her because we were pretty much exactly alike. I worked there that whole summer but I planned to go to college in the fall but that was quickly delayed.
I applied to go to Bristol Community College at the beginning of summer to see if I could get into any type of program that I liked but I really could not decide what I wanted to do so I never ended up going. So instead I kept my full time job at the restaurant but this time around I did not love it so much it fell into new management and it made the place stricter and not as much fun. I know it is a job and it’s not supposed to be fun but a little bit wouldn’t hurt. We now had to were uniforms and we could only have a 15 minute lunch break and I for one take a long time to eat so that wasn’t good for me. I am not one to say how I feel so I just went about my work like I always did and I did this for about another year and by.
This time I realized how that I wanted to be a chief so I applied for college again.
About a month later I got an acceptance letter saying that I was accepted to go into the culinary arts program at BBC. By the time I had to pay for school I realized I did not want anything to do with making food because of my job and how much I hated. So I went another year of working at the restaurant but now I just went about it like any other job I just did what I had to do and leave. I would just try and do the best I could from what I had to do and then try and get out as fast as I could.
I went about this for a couple months and finally realized that I needed to go to college.
So this time I applied for financial aid and everything else I needed to actually go threw with it. I decided just to go for the normal classes just to get going until I find out what I want to do with the rest of my life but I do know that I do not want to be stuck working at a restaurant for the rest of my life. After my 2 years of not going to school I realized that I needed to do something with my life and get a better education and try and get a good job that I will be able to support myself on for a long time to come.
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