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[Part 2 of the Robotic Nation<\/a> series] Imagine that you have a time machine and you are able to travel back in time to the year 1950:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Industries like these are, by and large, completely untouched by automation today. These people-powered industries represent at least half of the jobs in the American job pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now imagine the near-term future<\/a>. In just a decade or two we begin to approach a point where CPU power rivals that of the human brain. This CPU power drives the creation of robots that take over all of these jobs. The unemployment rate in the United States skyrockets as cheap robots push expensive humans out of half the jobs that we see in our economy today. The automated checkout lines and kiosks that are popping up in places like Home Depot and McDonald’s are the first messengers of this robotic takeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the robots start arriving in massive numbers to take half the jobs in America, the effects will be profound. At this moment in history, we are standing right on the edge of the transformation to a robotic nation<\/a>. It is fascinating to stand on this edge and think about what the robots will mean to us as citizens of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
by Marshall Brain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n