I Lost My Job is a short documentary film which sets out to explore the phenomenon which is affecting and due to affect many people's lives - namely, technological unemployment. The documentary also examines what we can do about it as a society through the analysis of a transitional direction.
The film, by creators New Future Media asks some serious questions about this subject. What are the social consequences of ongoing technological unemployment within our current economic system? How do we handle such a situation when this process is inevitable with the ongoing emergence of machine automation and new technologies taking over repetitive jobs?
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I can't wait to see it. My book is about how parents can prepare their children for the coming automated workplace. The Curiosity Cycle: Preparing Your Child for the Ongoing Technological Explosion http://jonathanmugan.com/CuriosityCycle/
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment Jonathan, we've been meaning to check out your book - it looks very interesting.
DeleteOur governments should spend more of our tax-dollars on something we want. I'm for robotics that are owned by all of the citizens of a country. Lot's of people want to cheer every time a robot puts someone out of work. Fully automated robotics factories, with self replicating robotic arms. Highly automated renewable energy, windmills or underwater water mills. Highly automated steel production. Highly automated chip manufacturing, and Linux. I've seen some automated building manufacturing companies starting up as well. Other prerequisite products can eventually be manufactured as well. All source code and blueprints have to be fully owned with rights to an infinite amount of use. All owned by the citizens of the country concerned. Small factories at first, with all of the bugs worked out, so that it largely builds itself in the end. It should be affordable, I'm an economic conservative. Eventually the complex can produce consumer goods besides steel, energy, chips, buildings, and robotics. Charities and the open source community can help as well. I support liberal licensing agreements of source code and blueprints, to allow infinite replication without cost(one time fee models).
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