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Even your computer science degree is nothing, next to an actual computer. (Image courtesy bloomberg.com.) |
According to io6.com, China is now focusing on making its notoriously high-output factories devoid of human handiwork. Due to rising labor costs and shortage of workers, the "smart factories" have been gaining appeal in certain areas.
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You may be seeing these signs less and less. (Image courtesy andrewmcafee.org.) |
Coupled with "robot assembly lines", factories are expecting to make massive cuts to their human labor forces. One factory predicts that they will be able to eliminate 90% of their living, breathing workers, cutting down from 2,000 employees to a mere 200 (to run the robots and handle administrative tasks. Even robots don't like dealing with customer service or some of the other more delicate tasks of industry.)
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"...And then I told H-97tron that her dials looked hot, and she filed a complaint with Robot Resources! Damn robroads." (Image courtesy themachines.gawker.com.) |
In the Guangdong province alone, several thousands of factories have considered rolling out robot fleets to lend a hand (claw...whatever.) Let's not pretend that's not a call to competition. China has always churned out cheap goods as fast as the world's dollars can fly at them, but now, they can do it round-the-clock, and even cheaper. Will the rest of the world robo-tize to compete?
Is NO human labor better than slave labor?
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Well, now you can write that book you always wanted to...so what if you're starving, it's good inspiration! (Image courtesy paleofuture.gizmodo.com.) |
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