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Will a robot take your job?
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It's a typical drivel article from the Beeb. They don't know the difference between automation and robots.
"Robots" are along way off and will never be cheaper than a human. So just playthings. The only exception is in warfare, where you send robots into dangerous places. These are not android robots either but stuff like drones with some form of artificial intelligence. ie autonomous.
Automation is with us now and I imagine will get more sophisticated all the time. It is the reason why stuff is so cheap.
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Only if the robot speaks polish...
The british robots will be on a picket line demanding more recharge breaks and drinking mugs of oil.
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I often watch the TV programme "How its Made". Robots and automation often feature yet the unskilled bit of packing or moving stuff is often delegated to humans!
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On the BBC1 news last night, they showed a robot doing the packing. Or rather it was shakily putting bits of polystyrene into a cardboard box.
Of course, that's packing to the average journo.
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Lol.
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I looked at a property being redeveloped in Berlin. The Germans and the Poles spoke English to each other, as the Poles apparently did not speak German at all well but everybody knew some English.
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I recently had a poorly packed delivery from Screwfix, metal post supports loose in a large box such that the box had holes punched in it. While it was complete and the contents were undamaged I did contact Screwfix to advise of the problem. They said that the entire operation at the distribution point was automated and that no person was involved in either selection or packing. In some respects I was quite impressed but not all!
Peter
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Perhaps that explains the quality of packing at CPC.
Or perhaps they really do use poorly trained monkeys.
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some animosity between the two countries in the past, perhaps.
Owain
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When I went to Corfu 20 years ago the locals hated the German tourists.
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crossing from Switzerland into France in 1958, there was a German registered VW with all the contents lying on the road at the French customs post.
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I'd heard the right place to holiday in Spain was "where the Germans go" (because the Brits are not there).
Certainly in Latvia in 1997, the place was good - notably due to the absence of British.
However, I was in Estonia and the scots turned up en-masse wearing kilts. So I went the other way...
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Not if you choose to become cyborg...
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...Ray.
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And, with a new technology, packaging is about to change too.
Mushrooms are now grown in moulds to form a good firm replacement for Styrofoam. If grown in the packet that contains the product to be shipped, then moulds will not be needed.
Consequences? Food for you or, the garden.
...Ray.
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The place we went to in Corfu was a "peaceful little fishing something or other". For the first five days is was. This is what we wanted, not a Blackpool. Then, the pikey Brits arrived and f***ed the place up. I've still got memories of a council estate bitch flashing her tiny t*ts and her boyfriend asking the HUGE owner of the bar for a fight. Makes one proud to be British. Dumb Britain.
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I do hope he obliged...
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During the 80's I remember a suit being made that could stimulate many parts of the body. The producer also provided programmed headsets so the wearer could make a choice of partners to experience.
Having just done a single search, I saw nothing advanced but, I would not doubt a future where a user will wear such a thing and will sit, apparently comatose, drip fed while completely oblivious to their real environment.
More still, would mankind develop such a system with the use of clones?
From conscience to fingers, fingers to keyboard, keyboard to software. That reads as old fashioned as I type it.
..and anyway, I think I saw this on Star Trek so, it must be true.
...Ray.
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And the Scottish robots will be drinking WD40!
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Who's drinking the brake cleaner?