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Forums - General Discussion - Amazon Go And Self Driving Cars: Are We Headed To An Automated Future?

Teeqoz on 06 December 2016
vivster said:

Of course not. We invented automation just for fun. In a few years someone will reveal that it was all a joke and we will go back to the stoneage.

OT I very much welcome this future. As soon as you don't need I driver's license anymore I will get my first car. And as a network admin I'm not worried about my job in the next 40 years.

Wouldn't network administration et. al. be something that would actually be not too difficult to break into easily discernible logic for a computer so that networks can, well, administrate themselves?

 

But of course, having the capability doesn't mean we'll use it immediately. We have the technological capability to do away with a crap ton of jobs right now, but the process is slow.



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Ouroboros24 on 06 December 2016

Don't be silly, it's already here. The only ones who are clinging to the past are the old people who are going to start dying off anyways. The same old people who denied gay marriage, deny marijuana legalization, wanted Britain not to exit. It's a brave new world and those who don't get on the automation train is going to get left behind.



Ouroboros24 on 06 December 2016
SvennoJ said:
What's next, videogames that play themselves. Oh nvm.

I'll enjoy driving myself for as long as possible. But at some point insurance rates will go way up for non self driving cars. Perhaps it will be safer. I just saw a dead deer on the highway, car on the emergency lane a bit further on, pretty dented with blood and guts all over it. No clue if automated cars are good enough yet to avoid that.

It's called movies.



DialgaMarine on 06 December 2016
vivster said:

Of course not. We invented automation just for fun. In a few years someone will reveal that it was all a joke and we will go back to the stoneage.

OT I very much welcome this future. As soon as you don't need I driver's license anymore I will get my first car. And as a network admin I'm not worried about my job in the next 40 years.

 I think it's because unless these retailers have Robocop 2 grade security, then they're gonna be ripe for theft



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SvennoJ on 06 December 2016
Ouroboros24 said:
Don't be silly, it's already here. The only ones who are clinging to the past are the old people who are going to start dying off anyways. The same old people who denied gay marriage, deny marijuana legalization, wanted Britain not to exit. It's a brave new world and those who don't get on the automation train is going to get left behind.

Erm, it was the young people that wanted Britain not to exit.

Automation is great, yet getting stuck behind old people in a normal checkout line is way less annoying than getting stuck by them trying to figure out the automated one :) Actually getting stuck behind people cross referencing every deal and add on their smartphone is the real pita.



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NewGuy on 06 December 2016
Soundwave said:
Ka-pi96 said:

This just seems like a step backwards to me. After all these years of creating new security measures to prevent theft the new idea is to leave stores wide open with no staff in them and let people walk in and take whatever they want and just trust them to pay?

 

That said, the automated cars could be useful.

The thing is you can't get into the store without scanning the phone, and once you're in, whatever you pick up and bag is automatically charged, so you can't really shop lift. 

You get charged for whatever you pick up and don't put back onto the shelf. 

What about if I turn off my phone after I walk in? What about if someone tailsgate in after someone else? There are a lot of security questions that need to be answered.



vivster on 07 December 2016
Teeqoz said:
vivster said:

Of course not. We invented automation just for fun. In a few years someone will reveal that it was all a joke and we will go back to the stoneage.

OT I very much welcome this future. As soon as you don't need I driver's license anymore I will get my first car. And as a network admin I'm not worried about my job in the next 40 years.

Wouldn't network administration et. al. be something that would actually be not too difficult to break into easily discernible logic for a computer so that networks can, well, administrate themselves?

 

But of course, having the capability doesn't mean we'll use it immediately. We have the technological capability to do away with a crap ton of jobs right now, but the process is slow.

Cisco and the likes are trying to sell us "self administrating" networks for years now. The truth is you still need people with a deeper understanding of how a network works and to conceptionalize a working one. There is still very much incompatibility between vendors, things break, weird bugs and the fact that pretty much every business lags behind current technology by at least 5 years.

Networking certainly will go towards automation within the next two decades but you need people to code and customize that automation as well. With the gigantic field that networking is there will always be things that are either too old or not worth to automate.

Network admins might become fewer but that leaves the more experienced people with better opportunities. So if you're in networking right now , you have a good chance of getting a job in the industry for a long time.



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