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The Automation Balance
In the 1980s, after graduating college, I bumped around for a few years trying to “find myself” and pay off the student loans that I’d racked up at a time when the economy was slow. While still in school, I had a guidance counselor tell me that there was no future in computers. However, even while working towards a degree in astrophysics, I spent an inordinate amount of time in the computer labs at the University of Illinois because I could do things with computers that were impossible otherwise.
Over the years, I’ve watched automation transform companies and society for good and ill. I remember watching a typesetting company (using up-to-date Linotronic software and hardware) go from a multi-million dollar company to broke within a year in the wake of desktop publishing. I remember trying to make the case to a clothing retailer’s accounting payables, and receivables section that their jobs were not in danger from automation, only to watch as many of them were laid off. When I started writing, I was making about $20,000 a book to write about HTML and JavaScript. Today, writing a book is a fool’s errand unless you try changing how people think about things. I don’t think I’ve made a profit from a technical book in the last decade, despite having written a fair number of them.
This week, DSC featured three articles: Ajit Joaker’s piece on the rise of computer-generated art increasingly replacing human artists, Osama Rizi’s article on the automation of ports, and Manoj Kumar’s article on the automation of Bills of Lading, the long manifests that indicate what a given shipping container holds. What ties these three together is that automation systems also replace longshore workers at ports and packers at fulfillment centers. Longshore work is succumbing to standardization of containers, electronic tracking via beacons and RFID chips, and the orchestration of the containers onto trucks (which are also becoming increasingly automated).
On LinkedIn, I commented on autonomous tractor platforms that shoot lasers at weeds in soy and corn fields. These lasers eliminate the invasive …….
Source: https://www.datasciencecentral.com/dsc-weekly-13-sept-2022-the-automation-balance/