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Originally Posted by Busty2
(Post 21912112)
I was attending the AWFS in Vegas last week and purchased a 4'x8' CNC machine that will be able to produce my designs and products in a fraction of the time it took me by hand. The issue is learning the Aspire software to be able to control the machine. Once programmed i will always have that design stored in the system. It will just take time to program, so my roll has not gone away just changed.
Its much like when i was in the film industry. My team of 76 guys could produce a dragon sculpt in less than 6 weeks with full animatronics. Everyone thought jobs would be lost due to CGI but just look at the credits on any film that includes ILM, watch the list of literally hundreds of people who work in each CGI department.The jobs never disappeared they just changed. And now that physical Dragon that cost £40,000 now costs ten times as much in CGI. :1orglaugh
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Times will change and jobs will evolve. Look to computer science as a good example. When I was in high school in the 1980's everyone told us that computers were the future and they were going to take away everyone's jobs. Interestingly enough, our school didn't even offer a computer class. However, they were ultimately correct. Computers took away a lot of jobs, but they also created a ton of jobs with the internet and all the technological advances it has help foster.
The next step is automation and robotics. Here is why it makes me nervous for the future. Automation and robotics will create new jobs. Someone has to build, program, run, and maintain these robots. However, there will likely not be very many of those jobs. A manufacturing plant can put in robots and replace a crew of 200 with a crew of 10-20. Sure, those are new jobs created by automation, but there are only a few of them and the other 180 people are out of work. Also, these new jobs are going to be technical in nature and I wonder how many people out there will have the aptitude to be able to do the job at a professional level.
Computers might have taken a million jobs away (number made up for use as an example) but the technology then created 1.5 or 2 million new jobs. Robotics and automation might take away a million jobs, but it may only create a few hundred thousand new jobs. That is where we will have issues. We are likely looking at a future where there simply aren't enough jobs for all the people who want them and those jobs that do exist will take a certain level of intelligence to do that some people simply don't possess. |
