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Bill Gates: Prepare to be Assimilated

posted by janrinok on Monday March 17 2014, @08:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the borg-revisited dept.

sl4shd0rk writes:

"Bill Gates says everyone needs to prepare to be out of work in 20 years due to Robots/software taking over most jobs. In preparation for this, Gates recommends people 'should basically get on their knees and beg businesses to keep employing humans' and reduce operating overhead for businesses by 'eliminating payroll and corporate income taxes while also not raising the minimum wage'. Bill Gates, you may recall, is the former CEO of Microsoft whose business acumen has brought the technology sector such things as Metro, Windows Phone and Xbox One.

BusinessInsider took a similar theme earlier this year."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Hombre on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:53PM

    by Hombre (977) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @01:53PM (#18186)
    Thank you, and to further it in my specific field...

    The major manufacturers do not keep spare CT scanners sitting around waiting to be ordered. The ones that are made are already spoken for. If you run Toshiba, you cannot replace it with GE. Your techs, and doctors, have to be retrained for it. Even if the manufacturer does have one ready for you, it'll take close to a week to get it to you, then another week to install it and get it calibrated. During that whole time, the facility is likely on bypass, meaning no ambulance deliveries. So the hospital is losing an awful lot of money. All because you didn't want to fly me out with a part that I could've replaced in under a day.

    You guys really need to look at it as a larger picture. Thinking about everything required to get the part installed. A robot isn't going to do it.