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here's an interesting story uh... a company called
foxconn is planning to replace half a million employees
with robots take a listen to this news story
and then we'll see what your thoughts on this list
firewire titles i am foxconn announced a plan to replace that's a half a million
human workers
but from what years becomes after the company trouble but employees foxconn
traveled the world manufacture a computer components and apple sound
nokia ten thousand robots well foxconn become outside sunshine uh... dinner
it's about time for it
so this kind of big deal this is a lot of influences the company that has
a significant employee sued suicide problem
i've seen and read quite a bit about
invasion
the obvious problems with replacing so many people
with robots are
job losses
but at the same time the argument can be made listen if we can automate a lot of
these tax that someone consider maybe mindless someone consider low brain
activity tasks
maybe the overall progress as
a human civilization could be accelerated if people could be focusing
on other things altogether other types of tasks what do you think
seriously entertained the thought that that is boxed ron's
intention
no aka but my quant but they did it is a good question in the sense that we are
going to see more and more jobs replaced by machines
uh... yeah
amina acting
for a lot of these people
they work here because they have no other choice
amir what pitch is gonna turn into a huge mess well here's the thing there
are these people produce family so there is a lot of research that suggests if we
had a different type of economy altogether
and i know some some of our audience will say one when i mentioned that they
will say well yet sounds like you're talking about either
the venus project or the site based movement uh... and some other related
related films
um... i'm not per se and indeed that does do address some aspects of the
state's new idea that if we can kind of rebuild the structure of our economy in
our society men people would be able to put their focus on other types of tax
anticipates is that
brilliantly outlined
by a lot of these
individuals that study this however
there's also the possibility that they've relieved from any of these
monday nd tasks and jobs which many people can only do that eventually
machines could do
maybe people wouldn't
focus on other things actually recently read on a trip
it's a pretty sure book it's uh... gold childhoods and it's by arthur c_ clark
it's a novel and in the novel it does outlined in our society
where the day to day
trials in tribulations of life
are basically
they're handled by technology and handled david basically people are
relieved of those duties and i imagine then when that technology fails people
have lost all these skills
and have no way to do things that himself made that's our on going online
with people just become uh... apathetic in other words people just seem to lose
interest in anything period
yes there's no crime but also people don't seem to care about i think people
are ideal
etcetera
i think that there's two sides of the idea of what will happen if many tasks
of many people are freed up by having passed that they know do handled by
technology and this foxconn story kind of reminded me of that
it'd be interesting to see where this goes
an audience member email me and said idea that they had a professor in
college who said that the increased
bertin
of day-to-day tasks being placed on technology instead of people
could lead to the next round of concentration camps too many people not
enough work to do employers looking for maximum efficiency which they get in
technology and a surplus population
that is left
has to go
i don't know that there is
significant research backing that up
but it's something that if you google round it's it's not a it's not a
completely unique
where you can do that
i mean it's it's a little extreme uh...
uh... on
are not forget that apple inc
are open up mission open on a