Tomorrow's Robotic Work Force
Tomorrow's Robotic Workforce Auth: Star Captain Dread
Over the next decade, many job sectors will be affected by the increased introduction of an automated workforce, and/or robotic laborers. This slow encroachment of robotic workers has already affected, and will continue to affect the number of available jobs in the future - increasing workplace productivity and freeing people's time to pursue higher education. The costs associated with operating and maintaining labour force will no longer be human resources, but rather maintenance and costs associated with the acquisition of artificial labor - which can potentially operate round the clock with minimal oversight. This will over the long term, decrease the cost of robotic technologies, increase the profitability and productivity of industries, and decrease the number of available jobs and job sectors as industries become gradually more automated. In the future, only highly skilled jobs will remain and we must ensure that all Canadians, have the right to higher education and highly skilled training to ensure our future workforce remains employed and benefits from this transition from a terrestrial industrial society, to a robotic's powered future space economy. Robotic Workers already exist in:
Manufacturing
Assembly
Logistics
Welding
Food Service Industry
Delivery
Transportation
Military Surveying / Operations
Space Operations
Space Exploration
Radioactivity Assessment / Reactor Repair
Robotic Workers are being developed for:
Construction
Demolition
Food Preparation
Food Service
Nursing/Personal Care
Medical / Surgery
Sex Industry
Military
Agriculture
Search & Rescue
Firefighting
While some jobs, are unlikely to be transferred over to robots in the next decade, the lowered cost of manufacturing due to robotics and 3D printing, could potentially allow Canada and even the United States to see large scale manufacturing return to our shores in the near future. This elimination of unskilled, and low skilled jobs, will have massive implications for Canada's workforce. Canada has a workforce of about 17.71 million workers in total, with 15.47 million over age 25, and 2.47 million under age 25. By 2025, many of the jobs currently available in today's job market, may no longer exist due to automation of industries. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/labr66a-eng.htmIf our government and Canadians are not prepared for this economic shift, it could lead to massive social unrest, joblessness and economic collapse. With such potential for economic change just around the corner, the Cosmic Pirate Party would implement a mincome program that would assist Canadians in transitioning through such drastic employment changes by providing a basic income to reduce the threat of poverty, as well as encouraging their pursuit of higher education. Canadian's whose jobs are replaced by a robotic workforce, would be encouraged to return to school for retraining in highly skilled jobs. Younger Canadians, who will not have the same employment opportunities for entry level jobs, would also be encouraged to pursue higher education and training for highly skilled jobs.As labor, and unskilled jobs are roboticized, highly skilled professions, creative professions, programming jobs and other industries will flourish with an increased pool of talent and contribution. Robotic maintenance and engineering, will become a large sector of employment going into the future; along with Space technology development and Space Colonization Industries such as deep space mining, star ship engineering and manufacturing, and the development of a large Scientific Space Exploration Community and related Industries.
Part of the Cosmic Pirate Party's future economic plans involves the development of a Space Arcology Prototype and the development of automated engineering systems that will self-manufacture Space Arcologies. The prototype, called Starcastle; would be designed to be constructed in an automated manner by robotics and 3D Printing, assisted by human assembly. The goal, would be to develop a type of robotic swarm system that could be sent to another planet, that would be able to acquire the materials needed, to automatically construct a livable habitat. Such technologies could be sent to other planets or moons, over the course of the next century throughout the solar system, to construct fully livable spaces for humans in advance of colony ships arriving to populate them. Imagine sending a space ship a few months before launching Colonists to Mars, and when you arrive, the facilities are prepared, and robots are growing food, robots are cleaning, robots are building vehicles for exploration, robots are cooking meals, and a robot even made your new bed. Such potential exists in the future, with the further development of Robotic and Space technologies. We would seek to ensure that Robotic labor benefits all Canadians, and that those who use robotic labor instead of human labor for their businesses, would be taxed according to help pay for free education for their workers going back to school. Star Captain Dread Andrew Kuess COSMIC PIRATE PARTY
SOURCE(s): “Mind Clone is a digital copy of your mind outside of your body,” said Rothblatt. “I think Mind Clone will look like an avatar on the screen, talking, instead of a robot version. Mind Clones are 10-20 years away.” http://www.rt.com/usa/229811-mind-clones-robot-afterlife/ "Suidobashi, we have a giant robot, you have a giant robot. You know what needs to happen," one of the MegaBots representatives declares in the video above. They say the Japanese company can dictate the terms of the battle and the venue before setting a timeline of a year from now. http://www.people.com/article/giant-robot-suit-battle-mech-america-japan Just days after joining hundreds of scientists in an open letter warning about the potential dangers of sophisticated artificial intelligence, Elon Musk donated $10 million towards a global research program to ensure AI remains beneficial to humanity. http://www.rt.com/usa/223183-elon-musk-donation-robots-safety/ A Seattle-area hospital is among the first in the country to use a computer that serves as an anesthesiologist. http://www.9news.com/video/4258821821001/1/Robot-doctor-performs-anesthesia-at-WA-hospital "A society with cheap robot labor would be an incredibly prosperous one, but we will need to find some way for the vast majority of human beings to share in that prosperity, or we risk the kinds of dystopian outcomes that now exist only in science fiction." http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-end-of-labor-how-to-protect-workers-from-the-rise-of-robots/267135/ "The effects on the economy and what politicians and business leaders plan to do about the consequences is something that will need to be addressed in the very near future." http://www.cheatsheet.com/business/4-companies-replacing-people-with-machines.html/?a=viewall "By 2025 these machines will have an IQ greater than 90% of the U.S. population. That 15 point increase in IQ over ten years would put another 50 million jobs within reach of smart machines. " https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-happens-to-society-when-robots-replace-workers
"The group said that with advanced automation, manufacturing companies will "no longer simply chase cheap labour,” which could mean renewed interest in manufacturers relocating back to the US from lower-wage nations, for instance. But eventually, fewer people will be employed in the long-run, as only highly skilled positions will remain."
http://www.rt.com/usa/231079-robots-work-humans-labor/ Toshiba aims to put the android into practical use as a receptionist or as an exhibition attendant within next year, with full development realized by 2020. http://latest.com/2015/01/heres-creepy-japanese-sexbot-future/ Hose-wielding humanoid robots could one day keep Navy firefighters out of harm's way. http://www.livescience.com/49719-humanoid-robot-fights-fires.html
