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Humans Need Not Apply: Technological Unemployment Now

“Just as mechanical muscles made human labor less in demand, so are mechanical minds making human brain labor less in demand.” In the short documentary "Humans Need Not Apply," Grey shows why about half of the currently employed could struggle to find work once automation takes over.
Backed up by statistics and current technologies, Grey illustrates that machines will take over slowly, without us realizing it. From Google's self-driving cars to IBM's Watson which won Jeopardy! and will be used to sort medical data and give recommendations,  machines are populating the work force, proving to be more reliable, efficient and error-free. The replacement will not limited by physical labor but also in areas such as legal, medical, and even creative work. Even creatives will not be safe.

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Humans Need Not Apply: Technological Unemployment Now

Humans Need Not Apply is a 2014 short internet documentary film, directed, produced, written, and edited by C.G.P. Grey. The film focuses on the future of the integration of automation into economics, as well as the worldwide workforce. 

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousOctober 1, 2015 at 9:01 AM

    I hate to say this, but the majority of technology today has pretty much come to a stand still in the public sector. An upgraded I-Phone is nothing more than a bell added and maybe a whistle with a price tag of $600.00 or more. This video is a little bipolar in its assumptions or conclusions. Hollywood is the greatest mind f**ck the world has ever known and I don't see an end in sight in the total control and manipulation of the human mind by the boob tube or youtube.

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