Robotic Nation Evidence

Rise in offshoring breeds job insecurity among U.S. workers

From the article:

"With an expanding array of jobs vulnerable to being moved offshore, many Americans will migrate to such fields as health care and education, which require face-to-face contact, the experts predict."

Automation isn't just allowing individuals to do more work than they once did, it's eliminating the need for many of those individuals in the first place. Technology is wiping out whole categories of lower-wage jobs such as supermarket cashiers, airport ticket agents and bank tellers.

This is exactly the point of Robotic Nation.

If this transition happened slowly, that would be one thing. The problem is that the transition is going to happen very quickly -- much faster than we've seen before. That speed will cause a great deal of turmoil.

People will try to transition to "health care and education", but then those fields will be automated as well. See for example:

• Robotic Education
  
  
• Robots and Teachers
  
  
• The arrival of the robotic hospital
  
  
• More Hospital Robots

Every aspect of our economy will be automating simultaneously. Retail stores will be eliminating millions of employees. The tranportation sector will be turning to robotic cars, trucks and planes. And so on. See Robots taking jobs for a fascinating list.

See Robotic Nation for details. See yesterday's census numbers for statistical evidence of the trend.