| Starbucks has these machines and I find it awesome to get my coffee and even chilled latte there for 2,50 instead of 5 or 6 $ The machines taking our jobs is already happening and it is due to our human nature that we are not seeing it: We extrapolate the past into the future and we are seeing physical robots As some of you (technical people) can better imagine it is and will be much more 'just' software (but a journalist can't that well) The "reduced" demand for nannys is 'kids playing with their iPhones' and it is already here and going stronger What will we pay people for in the future? That they are likeable, sympathetic and because 'we like to "interact" with them'? Seems like this would split the world into very hard skilled people programming the machines and a lot of people catering "what's left" (on the human side, that machines can't do / didn't replace yet) to those Luckily I am a software developer "Doctors to explain the recommendations": You could also say "Selling the pills of the Pharma Industry with low regards to side effects" "Nurses to provide hands-on care": I see "Human Issues" like: She's telling you all her problems she has at home and you have to listen Tell me the Internet isn't better in quality (than "real random people") already? |
While it may be the case that a robonanny can change a diaper or administer a bottle with a precision greater than or equal to a human human nanny (==), it is not the case that the robonanny understands viscerally what its connection to its charge is (===). Humans are a product of biological evolution and as such, there are certain features of our cognition that are very, very difficult to overcome, not least of which is our collective hangup on our own internal categories (ie, types). This is precisely the reason many people experience possiveness, nostalgia, a fear of the "other", etc., and I believe it also goes a long way toward explaining why so many folks speak of interacting with robots as if they were human as 'icky' or otherwise suboptimal.
That said, I personally believe that we are doing ourselves a disservice by dismissing the humanistic value of providing, on a cultural/societal level, a means for most of us to keep ourselves occupied, fed, and sheltered, regardless of whatever impact such activity may or may not have on the finances of giant corporations.
To quote Daft Punk, "We are human after all".