Today, as you read this, citizens of Shenzhen China live and work side by side with their future replacements.
Shenzhen is a major tech hub city within China, so it can be viewed as ground zero for the deployment of many new technologies and innovations, including AI and robotics. In a recent Bloomberg, Hello World video news report, Ashlee Vance shows not only other technologies like facial recognition exist and monitor everyone in public, but also explored how a smart phone manufacturing plant has installed a completely worker free assembly line that can build a phone from start to finish in less time, with less defects and at a lower cost.
Here in America, this report serves as a warning of what is soon to come. Jobs are being eliminated and not just in factories. Further into the video Mr. Vance dines at a completely worker free fast food restaurant. Robotic vending machines cook and serve the entire meal from order intake to electronic payment.
This gives a glimpse into the future of jobs that millions of us earn a living from. Are you ready to live in worker free world?