{"id":3648,"date":"2021-01-14T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2021-01-14T19:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T02:19:04","slug":"what-about-the-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/01\/14\/what-about-the-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"What About the Workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist has noticed that: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/2021\/01\/16\/after-years-of-dithering-companies-are-embracing-automation?utm_campaign=the-economist-today&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&amp;utm_term=2021-01-14&amp;utm_content=article-link-3&amp;etear=nl_today_3\">After years of dithering, companies are embracing automation<\/a> &#8211; <\/em>though I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily consider waiting for development of the appropriate level of DeepLearning-based AI before making the leap to be &#8220;dithering&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must build, but we must build surely&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;What about the workers?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What about the workers, indeed &#8230;sir<\/p>\n<p>Let them grasp, I beseech you, with both hands (toot! I&#8217;m so sorry, I beg your pardon madam) the opportunities that are offered in this new era of unparalleled progress in productivity. I am sure that we can all appreciate the benefits to society at large of the great, nay unlimited, prospects of these new developments. Let us assume a bold front and go forward together&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(with apologies for the butchery to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uw15MsGlxuc\">PeterSellers<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist has noticed that: After years of dithering, companies are embracing automation &#8211; though I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily consider waiting for development of the appropriate level of DeepLearning-based AI before making the leap to be &#8220;dithering&#8221;. &#8220;We must build, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2021\/01\/14\/what-about-the-workers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}