Basic Income Guarantee-Do You Like The Idea-Any Views-Have Your Say.

[Tawnyowl]

Why Milton Friedman Supported a Guaranteed Income (5 Reasons)

Milton Friedman proposed to give everybody free money in his book “Capitalism and Freedom”. He mostly referred to this plan as a negative income tax (and he also referred to it as a guaranteed income because that’s exactly what it is.) But why would Milton Friedman, an outspoken free market capitalist, support giving people money for nothing? Here are 5 reasons backed by Friedman’s own words.

https://medium.com/basic-income/why-milton-friedman-supported-a-guaranteed-income-5-reasons-da6e628f6070#.3y7zpnmg0

 

I did not know about Basic Income till this year.

If you are reading this for the first time check out how this idea is now spreading across the world.

And what may happen as our jobs are automated.

And what people are writing and saying and commenting on.

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?461005-Basic-Income-Guarantee-Do-You-Like-The-Idea-Any-Views-Have-Your-Say.

[Tawnyowl]

China’s basic income movement

Europe has received a lot of attention for its recent moves toward experimenting with a basic income policy. What has been lost in this focus are the developments that are taking place in the rest of the globe, including the world’s second biggest economy: China.

http://basicincome.org/news/2016/11/interview-chinas-basic-income-movement/

 

SCOTLAND: Fife and Glasgow to investigate Basic Income pilots

A basic income pilot in Scotland is appearing ever more likely in light of meetings in the council area of Fife and city of Glasgow held in late November

http://basicincome.org/news/2016/11/scotland-fife-glasgow-investigate-basic-income-pilots/

 

Karl Widerquist, BIEN co-chair and co-founder of Basic Income News, was interviewed on a TRT World program, The Newsmakers, as part of a special segment on poverty.

 

In the six-minute interview, Widerquist discusses poverty and inequality in the United States and argues that a universal basic income is necessary for freedom, addressing the question of whether it is fair to give money to those who don’t work.

http://basicincome.org/news/2016/11/video-karl-widerquist-us-poverty-basic-income/

 

Automation Will Cost Canada Up To 7.5 Million Jobs: Report

Canada should consider radical changes to its social safety net as the country faces the loss of up to 7.5 million jobs to automation in the next 10 to 15 years, says a new study from a think tank at the University of Toronto.

 

Even people in high-income jobs won’t be spared, as automation will reduce the demand for doctors, lawyers and engineers, among others, the study's authors say.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/11/28/automation-canada-job-losses_n_13286168.html

 

Thanks To 'Fight For $15' Minimum Wage, McDonald's Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide

GUEST POST WRITTEN BY

Ed Rensi

Mr. Rensi is the former president and CEO of McDonald’s USA.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/11/29/thanks-to-fight-for-15-minimum-wage-mcdonalds-unveils-job-replacing-self-service-kiosks-nationwide/#35d5341762e1

 

As the minimum wage rises it is clear that as profit is so important the employers will go for automation.

Is that time arriving is it upon us now,slowly taking jobs away.You decide,but reading that soon a welder say 20 pounds a hour will be replaced with a robot that will work 24 hours a day for 2 pounds cost per hour, roughly what do you think.

 

Prepare plan and survive,many jobs are going to vanish.

5 white-collar jobs robots already have taken

http://fortune.com/2015/02/25/5-jobs-that-robots-already-are-taking/

 

Don’t Blame China For Taking U.S. Jobs

Where have all the manufacturing jobs gone? If you ask Republican Donald Trump, the answer is clear: China! But there is another, more plausible explanation. To paraphrase Democratic Hillary Clinton, “It’s the robots, stupid”.

“The share of tasks that are performed by robots will rise from a global average of around 10% across all manufacturing industries today to around 25% by 2025.”

http://fortune.com/2016/11/08/china-automation-jobs/

 

But do not think the Chinese workers are having it easy.

We do not hear much about their possible suffering.

Foxconn axes 60,000 jobs in one Chinese factory as robots take over.

One of China’s high-tech manufacturing hubs is accelerating uptake of robots as labor costs rise.

As many as 600 major companies in Kunshan have similar plans

, according to a government survey.

https://www.techinasia.com/foxconn-r...ina-job-losses

 

Or this.

Reboot: Adidas to make shoes in Germany again – but using robots

Company unveils new factory in Germany that will use machines to make shoes instead of humans in Asia.

Opening in spring.Humans need not apply.

[Tawnyowl]

As Robots begin to take over many jobs in Asia,leaving tens of thousands out of a job are we ready for what is about to happen.

Or should i say may happen.No, better stay with will happen.

It does not matter which job you are in the robots are coming to whip away your job.

Prepare,Plan and Survive.

 

From,Boats,Planes and Trains to Taxi,Truck,Restaurant,Grocery,Farm,Banking,Military,Medical,Manufacturing,Pleasure and Leisure it is only a matter of time.

Do you know how many people work in these industries and how many towns,cities,villages,hamlets whatever rely on the workers wages..

Tens of Millions across the world.

 

Already as you look around a few hundred or thousand at a time ,even the dreaded Bankers,Wall Street,Europe here in London in the square mile of corruption as some call it should be talking now about what next.Or who's next should i say.

 

Many migrants come here to fill vacancies that sooner than we think may vanish.To better their lives and make a few pounds for their families.

And pay taxes to help pay for pensions for the older ones here.As the population ages and there are less workers to pay taxes we need them to do this work of that there can be no doubt.

Same across the western world,if not worldwide.

Obviously if work diminishes here they will go home.

But probably a little later there will be hardly any jobs there.The robots as time goes on will do nearly all the jobs if not all.

 

Are the governments taking all this in,they should be acting now.It is going to be amongst us so quickly.

You only have to see what the wages are whether skilled or unskilled to realise the robots will do it so much cheaper and for 24 hours a day if needed with no breaks.

So it will arrive.Business sense,would you pay 20 pound a hour or seven pounds or get the robot in for two pounds a hour.24 hours a day with no breaks.

I think the penny is dropping rather loudly,but not sure.They are in their Ivory Towers seemingly immune to change that we the normal population feel.

It sounds many times like they are living in the past,to many problems and too many things to concentrate on if you ask me.

Maybe when the robots come to their table to serve them in the restaurants in Westminster the message will be delivered along with an automated bill.

And perhaps the robotic speaker turns up in Parliament one Wednesday or whatever day Prime Ministers question time is.

Along with robotic secretary and robotic taxi driver to take them home.

 

I think that is enough for now,i have a little work to do for now.

All i am saying is time to Debate Basic Income now.

Of course may i say the above rambling is my opinion and i do like to go on a bit and let my imagination carry me to strange places.

 

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence are coming to whip away our jobs,they are.Oh yes they are.

 

Better leave you with a article,from a source that surprised me.

Brits to get FREE MONEY for nothing 'within 10 years – as work could be abolished'

CASH-strapped Brits could be handed money for nothing within 10 years, a leading academic has claimed.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/567064/britain-free-money-universal-basic-income-work-abolished

 

Robots,i would like to see them do my job,even they would not be that keen.But i know they could and are trying to.

[Tawnyowl]

It is only a matter of time.

Pilotless aircraft to return to Fylde skies

Engineers at BAE Systems’ Warton site are set to carry out a new set of pilotless plane tests. The ground-breaking unmanned aircraft technology trials will use a Jetstream 31 as a flying testbed flying out of Warton. Two pilots will be on board for safety, take-off and landing – but once airborne and in controlled airspace the Jetstream will fly itself.

 

Read more at: http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/business/pilotless-aircraft-to-return-to-fylde-skies-1-8275943

 

Truck driver is the most common job in the world—3.5 million of them in the U.S. alone. Over the summer, the Dutch government ran a successful test of driverless trucks crossing Europe. Uber recently paid $680 million to buy Otto, a startup working on auto-drive trucks and founded by former Google AI specialists.

Millions of driver jobs of all kinds could swirl down AI’s drain before Trump finishes his four-year term.

 

Canada’s postal service wants to send drones instead of vans to deliver rural mail.

 

Within maybe five years, AI will be better than humans at diagnosing medical images and better than legal assistants at researching case law.

 

When Skechers started building a colossal distribution center in Moreno Valley six years ago, backers promised a wave of new jobs.

 

Instead, by the time the company moved to the Moreno Valley, it had closed five facilities in Ontario that employed 1,200 people and cut its workforce by more than half. Today, spotting a human on the premises can feel like an accomplishment.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-warehouse-robots/

 

I know a few people working in warehouses,picking,sorting,fork lifting things like that.And seem to be quite a few jobs about if i am hearing right.

Is this because of the online boom.

But you can feel times may change.

 

Amazon, one of the biggest dogs in warehousing, has built 20 new fulfillment centers outfitted with robotics in the last three years, four in California. Since 2014, the company has added 50,000 warehouse workers nationwide — and more than 30,000 robots.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-warehouse-robots/

 

The Future of Farming and Concept Robots Taking Over Your Job

 

I could go on for hours,Ships,Planes and trains but enough for now,i feel many have already drifted off.

Soon it will be only dogs working.

Oh dear,maybe not

Dogs, helicopters and cowboys on horses herd cattle, and now a robot can help with the roundup.

 

Called SwagBot, the ungainly looking prototype has four metal legs with rubber wheels, topped with a rectangular silver box containing a battery pack.

http://www.voanews.com/a/cattle-herding-robot-takes-over-a-dogs-job/3487717.html

 

I feel a exciting time is coming,and i want one of those robotic dogs with trailer to drag my Driftwood off the beach.

Bye for now.

Tawnyowl

[Tawnyowl]

The Post Office needs to take a little notice of this idea.

Their profits will be cut to the bone as these ideas progress.

The good old Post Office and postmen sooner or later may lose many jobs.

Unless they unleash their own Drones,l eaving many Postmen where?

 

Prime Air — a delivery system from Amazon designed to safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles, also called drones. Prime Air has great potential to enhance the services we already provide to millions of customers by providing rapid parcel delivery that will also increase the overall safety and efficiency of the transportation system.

When will this start you may be thinking.

It has started.

On December the 7th 2016 a delivery was made to a customer in England.

First-ever Amazon Prime Air customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video:

http://amzn.to/primeair

[Tawnyowl]

Why we should all have a basic income

Scott Santens, always like reading his articles.

Consider for a moment that from this day forward, on the first day of every month, around $1,000 is deposited into your bank account – because you are a citizen. This income is independent of every other source of income and guarantees you a monthly starting salary above the poverty line for the rest of your life.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/why-we-should-all-have-a-basic-income

 

Universal Basic Income: For and Against

Scottish Liberty Podcast

 

The Robots are coming to whip away your jobs, Prepare Plan and survive.

 

Universal Basic Income Becoming Reality

[Tawnyowl]

Chinese Factory Replaces 90% Of Human Workers With Robots, Sees 250% Production Increase

One of China’s first unmanned factories in the city of Dongguan recently replaced 590 of its workers with robots and the results were astounding. While the factory used to be run by 650 employees, only 60 of those people still work at the factory and their primary job is to make sure the machines are running properly, not working on manufacturing.

http://monetarywatch.com/2017/01/chinese-factory-replaces-90-human-workers-robots-sees-250-production-increase/

 

JUST PUTTING THE LICENCE DETAILS SHOWING OK TO SHARE ETC.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

[postmn]

noble idea , but as usual how is the country going to pay for it

[cjcregg]

Consider for a moment that from this day forward, on the first day of every month, around $1,000 is deposited into your bank account – because you are a citizen. This income is independent of every other source of income and guarantees you a monthly starting salary above the poverty line for the rest of your life.

 

I haven't look at it it but does it mention the massive tax rises it'll require to fund it for those that can be bothered to work? Or the rampant inflation it'll cause?

[determindator]

I saw this just recently interesting

 

[fletch70]

I haven't look at it it but does it mention the massive tax rises it'll require to fund it for those that can be bothered to work? Or the rampant inflation it'll cause?

 

Clearly it would involve tax increases as I imagine there would be no tax free earnings amount

 

Why should it cause inflation ?

 

There are ways to ensure that all fit individuals contribute

 

It is a radical idea but it seems to be gathering momentum.

[determindator]

I believe Finland is introducing a basic income test. Their idea is being watched to see if it works.

[cjcregg]

Why should it cause inflation ?

 

 

 

Basic economics.

 

 

Higher incomes = more spending = more demand = higher prices.

[Tawnyowl]

Some people may feel worried about the incoming Massive changes to our world.

Scared even as they see the robots and artificial intelligence take over their jobs.

A welfare system that was set up many decades ago and now possibly not fit for purpose.

A modernising world, people stressed out, worried about how to get by week to week across the world.

 

How to fund a Basic Income.A few ideas, i am learning myself and am sure no accountant.

cjregg asks a question that will need answering but I cannot answer at the moment just as I could not answer one by citizenB a couple of pages back.

If I could I would.

It will need debating, working out but if I was a powerful one I would be starting now.

 

But these questions need answering.

One thing is for sure this question will need ironing out because I am convinced we will need it perhaps sooner than we think.

A couple of peoples views.There are many ideas out there look around if you have time.No one perhaps has the perfect answer yet.

How to Fund a Universal Basic Income,a different view there are many out there.

 

Without Scaring The Horses

http://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-az/how-to-fund-a-universal-basic-income.html

 

Today a few machines I have had a look at.

A machine at an Abbatoir, cutting meat and cutting joints, no I am not smoking a strange joint writing this just in case some are wondering etc, replacing butchers.

 

A machine building a house by itself, replacing construction workers.

Although flatpacks etc I feel may replace slow building soon.Bricks etc.

 

A machine that picks your order from a supermarket, replacing pickers.

 

Amazon is already on with robotic factories .45,000 Robots as people order online also replacing shopworkers.

When you think of costs like business rates etc, the way to go though we miss the shops.

 

A cleaning machine, airports, stairs, anywhere, sensors, does the job, bye bye cleaners.

 

Ocado testing a machine that can pick and pack fruit, so delicate.

We have already seen back a page or so other machines.Boats planes, trains, ships, soldiers,cars,buses,trucks,medical,solicitors,surgeons.

Enough of that, you soon realise what is happening

 

 

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates think it’s ‘crazy’ to view job-stealing robots as bad

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/03/warren-buffett-and-bill-gates-think-its-crazy-to-view-robots-as-bad.html

 

Now after seeing how many jobs these robots can replace you may get sleepless nights, think a few things.

As China and Asia import or make machines on an absolutely massive industrial scale, hardly able to keep up and are replacing jobs with them right now,

I let my imagination or perhaps crazy thoughts enter and worry myself a little.

 

You dream as you see one robot making shoes replacing 200 workers or more and able to work 24 hours replacing 600 workers

with few faults what if?

What if what you crazy old owl some may be thinking.

It is quite possible that a few countries could take up most of the production of the world, become all powerful.

At prices that are impossible to beat.Suppose if that was to happen, taxed to hell on imports etc to create a little fairness.

 

But I do not know just dreaming away.As usual.

I understand the questions that are being asked but cannot answer some of them because I do not know.

But glad that you are posting your thoughts.And taking interest.

 

President Trump promises millions of jobs just as the robots are about step in.

By the time he leaves office it is quite possible that millions of jobs will be vanishing.

So long as his presidency goes full term that is.

Whether people rebel, strikes etc as they see this Automation,Artificial Intelligence step up I do not know but I imagine they will for a while.

 

Enough for now, I can go on for hours but will resist.

Bye for now, have your say.

Tawnyowl.

[Nystagmite]

noble idea , but as usual how is the country going to pay for it

 

Indeed. The money has to come from somewhere.

[Tawnyowl]

A few articles, there are many out there.Some are a little dated.One thought, link was on my last post.

 

We talked to five experts about what it would take to actually institute Universal Basic Income

https://qz.com/611644/we-talked-to-five-experts-about-what-it-would-take-to-actually-institute-universal-basic-income/

 

Here's how much we’d all get if the UK dumped its welfare state and introduced a universal basic income scheme instead

http://uk.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-scheme-for-the-uk-2015-12

 

HOW TO FUND A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME FAIRLY

http://chrisagnos.com/fairly-fund-universal-basic-income/

 

As I say many articles on the web.

Sooner or later things will have to change one way or another.

 

What is Basic Income and why do we need it

 

 

The long-term future of AI(and what we can do about it):

[Tawnyowl]

Many are so sure the entire system will collapse if we make another improvement

 

[cjcregg]

Before you can answer how to fund it you need to know what it will cost.

 

Consider for a moment that from this day forward, on the first day of every month, around $1,000 is deposited into your bank account – because you are a citizen. This income is independent of every other source of income and guarantees you a monthly starting salary above the poverty line for the rest of your life.

 

Take the above crackpot idea as the model for the UK. Very approximately it would cost £450 billion a year. This isn't far short of the current total tax income the UK receives so tax would have to virtually double to pay for it. The scale of the consequences this would have are so varied and so unfathomable, no Government in their right mind would risk destabilising the economy to that extent.

[Tawnyowl]

Hi cjcregg, whatever the amount decided here in the UK sooner or later it hopefully will be Debated.

 

A little news that some may not have seen.

Universal basic income trials being considered in Scotland

Two councils, Fife and Glasgow, are investigating idea of offering everyone a fixed income regardless of earnings

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/01/universal-basic-income-trials-being-considered-in-scotland

 

The Indian government is considering introducing a Universal Basic Income

http://uk.businessinsider.com/india-indian-government-set-to-endorse-universal-basic-income-free-money-economic-survey-2017-1

 

I posted early by mistake.Enough for now, more soon.

Tawnyowl.

[cjcregg]

Hi cjcregg, whatever the amount decided here in the UK sooner or later it hopefully will be Debated.

 

 

Well there doesn't seem much hope of it being debated here. It seems that like the fracking thread and others you're simply interested in using what is a discussion forum to promote and advertise the causes you believe in rather than actually debate the merits of them.

 

I'm out.

[Tawnyowl]

Hi cjregg

Throughout this thread if you have read them, listened to them watched them there are various links from across the world and the UK with all kinds of views.

From Economists to people on these forums who have put their thoughts down.

Not all the questions can be answered, how much it will cost, from where, when it may have to be Debated by the Government.

As Automation, Artificial intelligence steps up and takes tens of thousands of jobs away something has to replace wages, a solution will have to be found.

All sorts of figures have been mentioned from different countries, i put them down when seen .

Nothing is set in stone.We may be years from this maybe only a couple, things are moving so fast.

 

As you see things changing so quickly across the world you form a view, that is all.So if you care or worry about something happening you write it down or start a thread just as you can.

If you think I am not being fair, only putting my own view down you can start a thread quite easily with your ideas, worries and people will debate away with you if they find it interesting enough.

Yes I believe in the cause of a Universal Basic Income and that is not going to change.

A chap wrote many years ago.

 

“The assurance of a certain minimum income for everyone, or a sort of floor below which nobody need fall even when he is unable to provide for himself, appears not only to be wholly legitimate protection against a risk common to all, but a necessary part of the Great Society in which the individual no longer has specific claims on the members of the particular small group into which he was born”.

If you have read this thread you will know who said that.

 

As for the Fracking thread feel free to have your say.I am finding it difficult to post there after what I have seen last week.Which has never happened before.

I will try again soon.

Write how you feel, whether agreeing or disagreeing, if you can put a link or two down to support your view it would help.

If not just have your say.It is a free country and this forum is open to all, a relaxing place to unwind and say whatever you like. About whatever you like, feel or think.I welcome all thoughts.And i do not want anyone to feel left out.

Bye for now.

Tawnyowl.

[Tawnyowl]

Labour sets up 'working group' to investigate universal basic income, John McDonnell reveals

'We’re working with Guy Standing, one of our economic advisers. What we’re going to do with that again is bring forward a publication and then tour around the country and have discussions with people around that'

 

In an exclusive interview with The Independent the Shadow Chancellor appeared to signal his desire to bring basic income in the party’s manifesto. The concept involves overhauling the welfare state and ditching means-tested benefits in favour of unconditional flat-rate payments to all citizens.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-sets-up-working-group-to-investigate-radical-idea-of-basic-income-john-mcdonnell-reveals-a7563566.html

[Tawnyowl]

Just a few articles, i am way behind on this thread.I Will try to catch up.

Be afraid the robots, AI are coming to whip away your jobs.

A Banker or a farmer they are coming fast.

 

Any article that would possibly lead to jobs vanishing brings thoughts of a Basic Income to some.

Already since this thread started it is impossible to keep up with developments around the world.

Things are speeding up.

Driverless cars trial set for UK motorways in 2019.

Lagging behind a touch if you ask me.

4th Industrial Revolution coming faster than many think.

 

Founder Prof Paul Newman, of Oxford University, said: "We're moving from the singleton autonomous vehicle to fleets of autonomous vehicles - and what's interesting is what data the vehicles share with one another, when, and why."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39691540

 

The robot scabs are coming to take your jobs

If you live in a developed or rapidly developing nation, you and your children will grow old in a world in which most people will not work, because the robots will take your jobs.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/15/opinions/the-robot-scabs-are-coming-to-take-your-jobs-howard-opinion/

 

Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?

Along the cobblestone streets of Soho, Chanel handbags and Arc’teryx jackets are displayed in shop like museum pieces, harking back to the height of the neighbourhood’s trendiness.

But rents there are softening, and the number of vacant storefronts is rising.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/business/retail-industry.

html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

 

Basic income - could it bring us closer to together?

What if every citizen had a guaranteed income, regardless of whether they are at work?

In an age of austerity and the rolling back of social policies, this idea may sound radical – but it is gaining momentum. Advocates of a universal basic income are already piloting it at a national level in Finland,

and similar projects are planned by the Canadian province of Ontario and the Dutch city of Utrecht.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/basic-income-could-it-bring-us-closer-to-together?utm_

content=buffer14ba9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

Say goodbye to your bank teller: Bankers say customers will interact with AI powered machines within the next three years

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4356374/AI-main-way-banks-interact-customers-3-yrs-Accenture.html#ixzz4fkIvNvcp

 

No one is prepared to stop the robot onslaught. So what will we do when it arrives?

You’ve heard about the robots—how they are on their way to vaporize the jobs of tens of thousands of bankers and brokers on Wall Street, in the City of London, and in trading hubs around the world. How they are bent on inflicting similar mayhem in law and accounting firms, and in computer-programming pools.

How, if you wear a white collar, male or female, watch your back.

https://qz.com/940977/no-one-is-prepared-to-stop-the-robot-onslaught-so-what-will-we-do-when-it-arrives/

 

Artificial Intelligence: A Smarter Future?

 

How To Make A Living When Robots Take Our Jobs

 

Hard to keep up with all the machines that can do all those jobs from surgeons to cleaners.

And most of the you tube videos are soon outdated.Probably these are.

 

So a link to show you a few.Robots doing nearly every job you can think of.

I cannot find it but it is already on here somewhere.

Enough for now I am now going to be beamed into the front room and watch James Bond in action.

Futuristic enough for this old owl.

Back someday unless a robot steps in.

Tawnyowl.

[Tawnyowl]

Robots hit the streets -- and the streets hit back.

Interesting read for a Bank Holiday-Do Robots deserve rights.Can you fall in love with a robot.Interesting things like that.Video continues.

One man wanted to marry his robot.mmm,how interesting,strange.

 

 

Man V machine has taken on a new wrinkle.

As robots begin to appear on sidewalks and streets, they're being hazed and bullied.

Last week, a drunken man allegedly tipped over a 300-pound security robot in Mountain View, California. The incident kicked off a spree of cheeky, only-in-2017 headlines: "Armless robot loses fight to drunk man" and "Security robot beat up in parking lot, police say."

If a robot is getting hassled in the heart of Silicon Valley, what happens when machines venture outside friendly territory?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/28/technology/robot-bullying/index.html?sr=twtech042917robot-bullying0505PMVODtopLink&linkId=37014831

 

Drunk Man Arrested After Attacking Armless Security Robot

Robots are slowly starting to appear in our daily lives as they compliment existing jobs or replace them completely. One of the robots we are sure to see more of in future is Knightscope. It's a 300lbs security robot capable of autonomously patrolling an area using numerous sensors to detect guns and suspicious activity in general.

http://uk.pcmag.com/robotics-automation-products/89049/news/drunk-man-arrested-after-attacking-armless-security-robot

[Tawnyowl]

Just popping in to put two links on.Two posts ago I said I could not find the links, well here they are.

So you can check what may soon arrive. Is your job safe?Perhaps for now.

Worth looking through for those that like to see the latest automation.Plenty of info, videos etc.

Be a shame to lose the bartender, surgeon, accountant, banker, grocery assistant and the rest, the human touch but I suppose future generations will just accept this as normal.

And anyway you will have your personal robot sat in a chair next to you to chat to stop you feeling lonely.

Argue with, talk to, play games with.

 

A You Tube Link.HumanVSMachine

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4nm0Wu1etjNdppJ1uydfBQ/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=0

 

And a Twitter Link.

HumanVSMachine

The visual exploration of the world of Automation.

https://twitter.com/HumanVsMachine

 

And a couple to start things off.

Automating the Grocery Warehouse

 

Amazon Robots | Stephen Hawking Presents...

 

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