Big Data Proxy Robots - meet your new workers
We hear a lot of guff about 'Big Data' and the reality of this subject is that Big Data is big business.
Every time you check out at the supermarket, that barcode scanner is building a profile of you and your consumption.
Big Data users report satisfaction with the results it produces for them
So to whom is that data useful? Many.
Apart from Supermarkets gathering data on your purchase history, companies like Amazon and Ebay analyse your browsing and purchasing to use algorithmic self-marketing targeted at what you look at and things you might like to look at. Things you might like to buy, more importantly.
When the refrigerator of the future can 'talk' to the Internet about your fridge contents, how they are used or rot, is useful to Supermarkets and Growers.
Low hanging fruit - harvested by Agrobots
spelling the end for migrant pickers
The base end of the scale, in agriculture, is now embracing robotic workers to pick produce on a constant cycle operational basis, selecting for harvesting produce at optimum condition, it reduces waste and enhances profits lost to waste from 'off' products.
This is the infancy. The world is becoming more connected across many markets.
So where is this going next? Proxy living.
Automation and Robotics are cutting a swathe into our human jobs world. Norbert Weiner, the early computer scientist and modern cybernetician saw the danger to human employment from computer automation of work processes in the infancy of modern computing in the wake of WW2.
Think of our traffic signals, automated, train signalling, mostly automated, air traffic control, mostly automated. We are steadily relinquishing control to machinery as it becomes more reliable and safer. Google cars are in the vanguard of automated driving.
The ghost workers - ethereal servants
Where do we go next with all this? Proxy living.
As we embrace the digital enormity of the future, we can dispense with the crap in our lives, all the trivia of paying for this, renewing that, can be done by machines, on our behalf, by proxy.
We no longer will have to endure the sales calls, the pop up marketing, the dross, because we will build technology to do that and let us just get on with our lives. Not interrupted.
The jobs market is set to lose 9 million jobs in the UK
Permanently - lost to automation
Fundamentally, we Humans have to change for the imminent future upon us.
Education is modelled on a largely out of date 'sausage machine' type of system. It no longer serves. It no longer will serve a jobs market where 9 million jobs will disappear over the next 10 years.
We need to fill a skills gap that It diplomas can't staunch nor every man or woman having a degree. A risk averse society has been created by health and safety cranks, who have filled a void in the unemployables sector now that the racism industry has become redundant to ethnic minority discrimination and white indigenous people are crying racism.
A cheaper Benefits model than the DWP must be introduced
We need people that can change a tap washer and make things. We need the DWP to become a more skills and training based unit, it is not serving the current demands, it needs to provide real skills not half arsed work placements in situations that just fill a gap on a CV.
To take the place of the lost jobs, a Basic Income Guarantee system of say £12k a year paid to everyone over 16 will have to come in.
It will be cheaper to administer than the current DWP system which spends £389 million dispensing around £17 million in unemployment payments. Hardly a good business model.
In one sweep, we can brush away a hugely bureaucratic and top heavy department and replace it with a skills and training operation that encompasses Technical Schools from age 12 and allows people to pursue what they are good at, rather than just having an income to survive.
Humans will be freed up by machines, to do things that give them value, rather than be just wage slaves doing menial work. Self improvement colleges and groups will be the future, to upskill Humans which will provide its own economy to take the place of the High Street.
Retail is being driven off the High Street.
Think about your last 5 purchases, how many were made in person interacting with another Human? Maybe 1. That is why the High Street is dying a slow death.
Jobs that were there in companies 5 years ago are now not there.
The 'record number of job vacancies' are largely due to double counting and worse, with a job perhaps appearing on 5 or more job sites, it will be counted as 5 rather than the 1 it actually is.
Our future is not bleak. If it is managed properly, it will be good.
It needs to be managed by professionals not by blundering amateurs.
The times for amateurs in Government is over.
Our future rides on it.
