If you ever dreamed about having a robot do your work for you, be careful for what you wish for. By the year 2025 you may be out of a job.
The Boston Consulting Group has stated that there will be over one million jobs that will be replaced by automatons in the next ten years. That translates into a million or more unemployed workers.
Science Fiction offers plenty of stories that provide for a glimpse into the future, and it is not always an optimistic view. Films like 2001: Space Odyssey (1968) and recent films like The Terminator (1986) series depicts a grim apocalyptic future ruled by cold, cybernetic machines in a wold where humans are superfluous.
One million displaced workers would need to be re-trained and phased into another sector of the workforce such as agriculture while many would go-on to maintain the robotic scabs that replaced them.
Toyota’s cherubic Kirobo just returned from outer space with data on robots and their affect on human loneliness, insuring that robots will me more like R2D2 than The Terminator in the future.
For those that do not subscribe to a bleak, apocalyptic future, optimists cite that robotic manual labor would free mankind to seek more time in arts, music, and other forms of leisure.
