Robotic Nation Evidence

Revenge of the Right Brain

From the article is a quote that directly demonstrates the power of the Robotic Nation and Manna:

Any job that can be reduced to a set of rules is at risk. If a $500-a-month accountant in India doesn't swipe your accounting job, TurboTax will. Now that computers can emulate left-hemisphere skills, we'll have to rely ever more on our right hemispheres.

I think that what this quote misses is that that computers will be taking over right-brain skills as well. Think of many of the things that we traditionally consider to be right-brained:

• Arranging furniture in a room (interior design)
• Arranging the components of an advertisement (graphic design)
• Creating logos (visual arts)
• Deciding on which colors will look best together
• And so on...

Many of these things can be modeled, or can be tested using large groups of people. In that case, then the computer actually does a better job and the right-brain activity gets taken over by a computer.

Here is an example. The company Optimost takes ads and web pages and optimizes them by computer to improve the click-through rate (look at the 2-minute demo). People used to lay out ads and web pages using the "right brain". Now a computer does it, and does it MUCH better.