Saturday, January 26, 2013

Will technology kill your job?

<p>They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies such as "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider."</p><p>Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the United States, California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology?</p><p>"All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," predicted Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."</p><p>If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe?</p><p><a href="http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/will-technology-kill-your-job/article_e8c32b6b-5e3a-5682-9a1e-ca93bec927e2.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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