The 4th industrial revolution of automation and robotics will and does already affect just about all people on the planet. It will end up with every person being microchip-ed and having to deny Christ in order to by and sell...LDS Anarchist wrote: ↑November 6th, 2017, 4:39 pm None of this stuff matters. It's all ephemeral. ............
So, everyone take a chill pill. Relax. Good days are ahead of us. The so-called 4th Industrial Revolution will come to naught.
On the way there 50-60% of all jobs will be lost to robotics. I was discussing this with a college at work last year and said to him he does not have to worry as his wife if a pharmacist and will still have work, He said his wife is preparing for unemployment and doing other training as soon doctors will give prescriptions with bar codes which you just put into a machine and it will dispense your medication. So it is with most jobs. People currently studding at universities before they even finish their degrees their careers will be obsolete. There is now record number of long-term unemployed living on welfare. The church is doing a lot to promote sufficiency as it is reaching crisis proportions.
In the mining industry in Australia they have automated some underground mines and opencut mines where people live in the city thousands of miles away from the mine and operate a number of trucks remotely. The dairy industry has become automated the cows are trained to just walk into a carousal where the milking is done 100% automated by machine - each cow an electronic chip and milk production is recorded and the animals health monitored remotely. The US and most western countries with Amazon has wiped out the retail industry tens of thousands have and will still loose there employment over the next 18months.
There is not an industry that will not be affected - the previous industrial revolutions resulted in mass migration to the cities and mass poverty and loss of standard of living. It took generations for things to improve - this time there is no recovery.