Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Umpires, Farmers, and Ranchers

Question: What do a baseball umpire, a farmer, and a rancher all have in common?
Answer: all three have repetitive jobs that can be automated and done by machines that don’t get tired and don’t care much about work-life balance.
Complaining/protestingtrying to hold back the technology, and/or demanding an increase in the minimum wage don’t seem like solutions that scale very well.
On the other hand, learning enough about technology, programming, and/or AI so that you can solve problems yourself does seem like it would scale... Unless of course you agree with Charles H. Duell, who famously claimed (in 1899) that "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

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