Author Topic: US Cities Ordered by Expected Job Impact from Automation  (Read 881 times)

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US Cities Ordered by Expected Job Impact from Automation
« on: October 26, 2017, 01:14:38 AM »
Found it here, incl. some background info:

http://wraltechwire.com/mit-study-triangle-to-be-among-least-hit-least-by-job-automation-but-impact-still-tops-50-/17047606/

PDF: Small cities face greater impact from automation (skip to page 37 for table of cities)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05875.pdf

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Re: US Cities Ordered by Expected Job Impact from Automation
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2017, 01:55:22 AM »
I really can't get passed the misalignment of our current "American values" and the coming tsunami of unemployment.  The numbers in that report are devastating.   Best case scenario we'll get New Deal 2.0, worse case, lawlessness or fascism. 

I remember in the Dune books that they reference a war that ended in the outlawing of "thinking machines".

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Re: US Cities Ordered by Expected Job Impact from Automation
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2017, 02:30:05 AM »
I love coming to The Core for me evening dose of sunshine and unicorns ;-)

No doubt much of this is true, as we've discussed extensively. But as we historians like to say, the problem with predicting the future is that it hasn't happened yet.

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Re: US Cities Ordered by Expected Job Impact from Automation
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2017, 02:58:39 PM »
By when though?

I scanned the article and looked over the list in the pdf and didn't see the date range for which this is forecast?