{"id":299,"date":"2015-03-24T17:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=299"},"modified":"2015-03-24T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T22:21:52","slug":"the-future-of-smart-robots-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/24\/the-future-of-smart-robots-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Smart Robots, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/03\/23\/the-definitive-guide-to-whether-or-not-a-robot-will-take-your-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wonkblog<\/a> on the Washington Post covers the future with robots from the distinctly human perspective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk\/downloads\/academic\/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf\">a widely-cited study<\/a> by economist Carl Benedikt Frey and engineer Michael Osborne, 47 percent of jobs in the United States are at high risk of disappearance due to improving technology. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Techno-optimist Kevin Kelly of Wired\u00a0[former editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/wholeearth.com\/history-whole-earth-review.php\" target=\"_blank\">Whole Earth Review<\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/12\/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs\/\">celebrates the coming of our robot overlords<\/a>, arguing that they will free us to do more fulfilling and higher-value jobs in the future. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Larry Mishel at the Economic Policy Institute\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/robots-coming-blame-wage-job-problems\/\">finds<\/a> that the skill-based technological change explanation for wage stagnation and high unemployment doesn\u2019t track with trends like the declining wage premium for college, and so can\u2019t be a driving force behind income inequality. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/2014\/08\/06\/future-of-jobs\/\">Pew survey<\/a> of 1,896 technology experts, about half believed that technology would destroy more jobs than it creates, creating mass unemployment, and half disagreed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not exactly definitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonkblog on the Washington Post covers the future with robots from the distinctly human perspective: According to\u00a0a widely-cited study by economist Carl Benedikt Frey and engineer Michael Osborne, 47 percent of jobs in the United States are at high risk of disappearance due to improving technology. &#8230; Techno-optimist Kevin Kelly \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/24\/the-future-of-smart-robots-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}