Comment Re:Predict the future by looking at the past (Score 1) 1457
No. In this situation, robots are taking over specialized jobs that require a great deal of accuracy. Other than the guy on the street corner who wrote my name on that grain of rice, humans can't fab chips by hand. Car manufacturing also requires a great deal of precision.
This article makes the falacy of applying Moore's Law to algorithm development. There are still no linear time sorting algorithms despite decades of research. Processing speed alone won't guarantee a reliable algorithm for visual simulation. (Of course, there does seem to be a real correlation between Moore's Law and code bloat.)
Another mistake Mr. Brain makes is to imply that the hurdles to overcome to mass produce cars and make airplanes fly were realatively as easy to overcome as building robots to replace half the jobs in the economy. Robots may be capable of performing hard labor, but the barriers to overcome in order to make a robot successful in the service sector are much greater. Will a robotic smile ever replace the geriatric one greeting you at Wal-mart?
