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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:30 am Post subject: ROBOTIC REVOLUTION WILL CAUSE MAJOR SOCIAL UNREST |
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Why a former Facebook executive QUIT the tech industry, moved to the woods and bought guns and ammo� COLLAPSE is coming
Wednesday, August 09, 2017 by JD Heyes
When I think of workers at social media behemoths Google and Facebook, I get a mental image of people who are far Left on the political spectrum, very politically correct, and more interested in being social justice warriors than just about anything else.
I don�t get a mental image of someone who is into prepping, has a realistic point of view about culture and society, and is getting ready for some sort of major collapse in the future. And yet, that�s what one former Facebook employee is doing.
As reported by the UK�s Daily Mail, Antonio Garcia Martinez, a former product manager for Facebook, says the rise of robots and artificial intelligence has motivated him to seek refuge in a remote, wooded hideaway because he believes the development of both portends the end of the civil society.
�You may not believe it but it�s coming, and it�s coming in the form of a self-driving truck that�s going to run you over,� he said during an upcoming two-part documentary by the BBC called �Secrets of Silicon Valley.�
So he now lives life using a bucket toilet, protected by a semi-automatic rifle and lots of ammunition.
As for Martinez, while many see AI and robotic development as a potential boon for Humankind, he thinks the worst: They are being developed as replacements for human labor, not as compliments, and that will lead to major unrest in the near future.
�Within 30 years, half of humanity won�t have a job,� he said. �It could get ugly � there could be a revolution.�
He�s not the only one to predict or believe that. Others have made similar dire predictions, and for the same reasons: Tech is advancing so rapidly that it�s hard to see which jobs aren�t going to be replaced by a machine in the very near future. (Related: Even laying brick will be done by a robot someday.)
As the Daily Mail reports further:
Martinez claims this will lead to revolt, mass chaos, and armed conflict, also adding that bullets will become the currency of America.
�You don�t realize it but we�re in a race between technology and politics, and technologists are winning. They�re way ahead,� he says.
�They will destroy jobs and disrupt economies before we even react to them and we really should be thinking about that,� he added.
A 2011 book by Gallup polling firm chairman and CEO Jim Clifton called �The Coming Jobs War� makes a similar case.
�Leaders of countries and cities, Clifton says, should focus on creating good jobs because as jobs go, so does the fate of nations. Jobs bring prosperity, peace, and human development � but long-term unemployment ruins lives, cities, and countries,� says a summary of the book (which this reporter has read, by the way). �A global jobs war is coming, and there�s no time to waste. Cities are crumbling for lack of good jobs. Nations are in revolt because their people can�t get good jobs. The cities and countries that act first � that focus everything they have on creating good jobs � are the ones that will win.�
Given that companies are always looking for ways to trim one of their biggest costs (and headaches) � labor � Martinez�s prediction rings true. Before working for Twitter and Facebook, Martinez was a strategist for financial firm Goldman Sachs.
�I�ve seen what the world will look like in five to 10 years,� he said.
The BBC documentary also features interviews with AI pioneer Jeremy Howard, who said that �people aren�t scared enough� about what�s coming down the pipeline.
�They�re saying �Don�t worry about it, there will always be more jobs,�� he said, noting that such statements are based on the fact that even after the Industrial Revolution, which automated factory processes and reduced the need for so many human laborers, �there were still enough jobs.�
But the new AI and robotic revolution will be much different. �It�s a ludicrously short-sighted, meaningless argument which incredibly smart people are making,� said Howard, who is also predicting �massive social unrest.�
J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.
Sources include:
DailyMail.co.uk
Gallup.com
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