Liberal Arts people, aspiring singers
and Dancers moonlighting at McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King and other Fast Food
Joint across the US of A, Robots are coming to take away your job in the Fast
Food Industry by about 2017 as stated in “Robots
will replace fast-food workers”, published May 22, 2014: 11:07 AM ET By
James O'Toole, CNN Money. At least, in the
US of A!
A recent groundbreaking study done by Dr.
Carl Frey and Dr. Michael Osborne of Oxford University in 2013 that’s been
flying around like a lost paper plane in a cubicles office suggests that
there’s a 92% chance that Fast Food Workers jobs will be replaced by Robots as
stated in
“The Future of
Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?”, published Sep
2013 by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, Oxford University.
But it’s what the study said about other
professions that are chilling. There’s a 47% chance that some industries in the
US of A may gradually see their staff being replaced by Robots as sounded by
the somewhat alarmist Blogger Michael Snyder in his article “THE
ROBOTS ARE COMING, AND THEY ARE REPLACING WAREHOUSE WORKERS AND FAST FOOD
EMPLOYEES”, published MAY 23, 2014 by MICHAEL SNYDER, ECONOMIC
COLLAPSE BLOG.
Robots
to replace Human Workers - Alarmist but possible if the job’s too dangerously
simple
I say alarmist as that was already in
the cards. Plus truth be told, not every job can be done by Robots, as with the
current state of technology, there are many thing Robots cannot be designed to
do at a cost cheaper than humans. Despite the fact that they never sleep, can
work 24/7/365 so long as they have power and never complain, they do have
maintenance issues and cost issues, World Domination thoughts aside. They are
not Human, but neither are they perfect, as they need maintenance too.
Many jobs still require a human touch,
such the gentle art of making a burrito at Chipotle as explained in “Why
Fast-Food Workers Won't Be Replaced With Robots Anytime Soon”, published
Apr. 4, 2014, 10:59 AM by Ashley Lutz, Business
Insider. But any task that’s simple, repetitive, hazardous and involves
just tracking large amounts of information accurately and moving goods from
point A to point B is definitely up for Robotic Automation.
Now you can sound the alarm.
Amazon
and PrimeAir – Drone Delivery is coming in 2015 after FAA Completes their Study
Amazon is looking toward Drones to do
delivery of packages as I’d reported in my blog article
entitled “Amazon
plans to launch Amazon PrimeAir, their 30 minute Drone Package Delivery Service
for Amazon Prime users - Playing Catch-up as Mailpak launches DealBug in
Jamaica”.
UPS and FedEX also have plans of their
own that may eventually automate the delivery of packages and mail, eliminating
the need to have human delivery altogether as pointer out in my blog article
entitled “UPS
and FedEx developing their Own Delivery Drones to compete with Amazon PrimeAir
- Premium Rush Package Delivery Drones herald the coming of Google's Personal
Androids that are Almost Human”.
Already Amazon has automated their
Warehouses using state-of-the-art packing Robots as explained in my blog article
entitled “Amazon's
Wag.com Social Network for Pets - Quidsi in the Flight of the Navigator”.
So as I said, any task that’s simple, repetitive and hazardous will be in the
future a prime target for replacement by Robots.
Strictly speaking, Drones aren’t Robots.
But the guidance systems being developed to fly them are basically AI
(Artificial Intelligence) Systems that can think on their own and make human
decisions. That would mean no need for a NOC (Network Operation Center) filled
with human pilots.
Instead it would be banks of Computers
or even supercomputers such as the Natural Language capable IBM Watson as
explained in my blog
article entitled “IBM's
Watson soon to be a Watson Engagement Advisor in Call Centers - The Internship
of Ask Watson 40% faster search puts Customer Service Agents in Jeopardy at The
World’s End”.
Rest assured Drones are coming to the US
of A by 2015. That is, as soon as the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) study on
Drones is completed as stated in my blog article
entitled “FAA
ok’s Drones for Hobbyist – Study to determine Commercial Drone Risk as Amazon,
UPS and FedEx Drones get the Kibosh until 2015”.
At that moment, Amazon’s PrimeAir will
pounce on the Goods Delivery market. And in that day, so too will UPS and
FedEx, placing millions of Americans in the Private and Public Postal Service
out of work.
Jamaica
and Drones – Central and Local Government Postal Service Revival
Will Robots be coming to Jamaica? In the
form suggested above, mainly humanoid Robots doing human Tasks, be it in Fast
Food or elsewhere? Not likely, as there’s a political imperative by the ruling
PNP (People’s National Party) to keep people employed.
But when it comes to a more efficient
Central and Local Government, it’s very likely. It may even first show up in
the Postal Service as a means of delivering letters and packages to far flung,
remote places as explained in my Geezam blog
article entitled “Skycam Jamaica
Aerial Photography marks possible Revival of Package Delivery in the Jamaica
Postal Service”.
Combined with Solar Panels being placed
on Postal Offices as is now currently being done for High Schools and
Government Agencies thanks to the PetroCaribe Fund as pointed out in my blog article
entitled “PCJ
to install JA$62 million Solar Panels Systems - 16 Schools and 3 GOJ
Institution Guniea-Pigs has Wigton III Project Venezuelan Connection”, it
would make it possible to maintain and run an efficient Postal Service without
having to fire Postal Workers.
Instead, only the Delivery workers would
be laid off possibly re-employed as Drone Maintenance Crews as the Drones would
make 30 minute Courier delivery of packages and letters to any part of the
island possible, at a price of course.
Drones could be used to speed up the
delivery of important, confidential documents and packages that can’t be sent
over the GOJ (Government of Jamaica) planned GovNet as announced by Minister of
Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell back in October 2012 as
per my blog
article entitled “GOJ
Parliamentarians upgraded to Microsoft Surface Tablets and GovNET Wide Area
Network - Minister Paulwell efforts to reduce paper may accelerate Jamaican
Tablet Adoption”.
There’s a strong possibility that the
JCF (Jamaican Constabulary Force) aka the Jamaican Police may eventually be
acquiring Drones as a solution to the rental of JDF (Jamaica Defense Force)
helicopters for night-time reconnaissance of trouble hotspots in Jamaica as
predicted in my blog
article entitled “GOJ
can develope UAV's as a means of giving the Police eyes in the sky -
Inspiration for Aviators in Jamaica via G.I. Joe Retaliation”.
So Drones are a strong possibility in
Jamaica in the Public Sector, as it would help to make Central and Local
Government operate more efficiently and cost-effectively. Despite any perceived
loss of jobs, the very same persons can be retrained to act as maintenance
crews to maintain this fleet of Drones, as automation of their flight-paths
isn’t immediately possible.
Jamaica
and Drones - Ministry of Agriculture to use Drones to fight Praedial Larceny
But what is currently in the pipeline is
the use of Drones along with a DNA Database by the Ministry of Agriculture to
combat Praedial Larceny as explained in my blog article
entitled “Min.
of Agriculture proposes DNA Database for Cattle and Livestock – How RFID
Biometric Markers can curtail Praedial Larceny and Develope Agro Processing for
Export”.
This may take some time to implement.
However, it’s more likely within Private Sector Companies that have large
swathes of equiptment and property that needs to be protected from thieves and Praedial
Larceny. Based on my sources, a few Private Sector companies in Jamaica have
already begun looking into the idea of using Drones and CCTV Cameras to police
their property at nights.
One such Private Sector company is the
Courier Service Mailpac and their
American counterpart Aeropost.
They definitely have an incentive to switch to using Drones to do their
deliveries more efficiently and cost-effectively within 30 min to an hour
anywhere in the island as concluded in my blog article
entitled “Aeropost to spend JA$150 million introducing
Delivery Lockers - Drones are the Missing Variable in the Delivery Equation
with advantages superior to Lockers”.
Fast
Food Robot Apocalypse aborted - Drones not Robots, will be the first Robots by
2015
So Robots to take over? Not quite yet,
at least not the way we think.
Instead, Automated Systems, which are
effectively Robots, just not in humanoid form, will be the first vanguard of
any future Robotic invasion of the Workforce. So no replacement of Fast Food
Workers, despite their strident protests over work conditions and pays. Their
human skills are just too expensive for current humanoid Robots to duplicate
cost-effectively……for now.
Instead, it’ll be Drones and other types
of Robots doing simple, repetitive and hazardous Jobs. Such jobs will be in the
future a prime target for replacement by Robots. But in the immediate future,
look out for Drones such as those that are a part of Amazon PrimeAir becoming a
part of our fleet.
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