Something big seems to be coming up. Is it possible that we are at the threshold of a technological revolution that would entirely overhaul the way we live, work and communicate? Many experts and analysts believe that this is indeed the case. To such an extent that the so called
Fourth Industrial Revolution has become one of the key topics of the
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Because this is something we all need to think about.
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Question: What makes you say this:
"... in 2020 it will be irrelevant, since machines using vast data massifs will be able to take the decision-making tasks from the hands of the top management."
I mean, that's less than four years from now. Top management leverages information and advice from underlings and partners all the time, all drawing from software services that aspire to what you describe. You're saying in four years top management itself will be replaced by analytics software?
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It's almost like those folks who predict the future are making this stuff up.
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"... Basically, the system allows a user to drag-and-drop “virtual assembly lines” into place, and run them from a dashboard. ... But could iCEO manage actual work projects for our organization? After a few practice runs, we were ready to find out. For one task, we programmed iCEO to oversee the preparation of a 124-page research report ..."Every couple of months, somewhere on the planet, some acolyte programmer or frustrated employer of programmers comes up with the bright idea that they could solve the problem of software development once and for all if they just built a set of software tools that management could use on their own, to describe their needs to the computer and have the computer do the work ( ... )
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I'm concerned about this next industrial revolution taking place under capitalism. Unless the roboticisation of the workforce happens under a collectively owned means of production a few people are going to get really wealthy and the rest of us will be left with nothing. I have little hope the capitalist masters will appreciate that without anyone to buy there is no market place, we can look to what's happened in the US in the last 40 years to see that.
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There'll always be the Matrix for that.
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Nowadays I bet the general public would :D
In a way, we're already all extensions of the computing power of machines... We don't even need virtual reality to convince us it's a good way to live.
(And isn't it?)
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