In addition they will have access to information resources indicating weather conditions, road conditions and any other resources necessary to their efficient function, 24 hours a day. Humans simply cannot compete with this level of efficiency.

No job is truly safe from this inevitable development of ARA, blue collar, or white collar, hell, even some artistic jobs may fall by the wayside as machines prove the divide between our organic computer and their silicon one grows smaller every day.

It’s time to address what this may mean to Humanity as a whole and how we are going to address the future of a world where the bulk of the work available in the world will have a sign that says: Humans Need Not Apply.

Automation is inevitable. What will we do when most work in this nation is automated? Watch this video and decide where you are going to end up when this happens.

Update: After I talked to a few friends, we had a conversation about what should we be looking at if we want to address this problem.

You see, there is an element here we didn’t talk about when we were looking at robots replacing you at the workplace. Robots replacing humans wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, humanity working eight to fourteen hours a day to make ends meet hasn’t really helped anyone except the extremely wealthy.

It’s clear that work is mostly taking care of the elite rich and everyone else is just getting by at least for the last 35 years, give or take. See: Wage Stagnation.

The real purpose of work is to keep people employed enough to pay for things they need and return to work on Monday; little more than slavery with a salary.

Automation, robots and planned algorithmic intelligences would ultimately bring that to an end. Machines would do what they have always done. Put people out of work.

Sometimes people were fortunate and they could be retrained for newer or at least different work. This has always been the way of technology until now. Our technologies now have the potential to end work as most of us know it.

What no one mentions is:

“What happens to your consumer driven economy when no one can afford to buy your robotic industry-made technologies made without Human labor? Can you even have a consumer-driven economy when the bulk of your workforce is unemployed, through no fault of their own?”

So what do you do when robots have taken away the bulk of the labor market as we know it?

I have been accused of hyperbole in this regard but I want you to understand something: Companies are in the throes of doing this very thing right now. Here is just one example.

Chinese factory replaces 90% of humans with robots, production soars Changying Precision Technology Company in Dongguan city has set up an unmanned factory run almost entirely by robots. The factory has since seen fewer defects and a higher rate of production. In Dongguan City, located in the central Guangdong province of China, a technology company has set up a factory run almost exclusively by robots, and the results are fascinating. The Changying Precision Technology Company factory in Dongguan has automated production lines that use robotic arms to produce parts for cell phones. The factory also has automated machining equipment, autonomous transport trucks, and other automated equipment in the warehouse. There are still people working at the factory, though. Three workers check and monitor each production line and there are other employees who monitor a computer control system. Previously, there were 650 employees at the factory. With the new robots, there’s now only 60. Luo Weiqiang, general manager of the company, told the People’s Daily that the number of employees could drop to 20 in the future. “Chinese factory replaces 90% of humans with robots, production soars.” Techrepublic.com. N.p. 30 Jul. 2015. Web. 14 Jan. 2016. <http://www.techrepublic.com/>

It’s time to consider something completely revolutionary, of course. I will not be going into great detail in this essay. I may revisit these ideas in greater depth, but they seemed important enough to at least acknowledge them. We are going to have to find ways to sustain our current economy until we can move away from the idea for people to have something, someone else has to get rich for that to happen. We have to get rid of the idea that access to education, learning, and opportunity is limited to the elite .01 percent of society who deserve the efforts of the rest of the Human race for their personal enjoyment.

Every Human being is born with the same grey matter which derives the sum of our experiences. If we are to develop as a species, we will need everyone to be able to participate and bring their considerable 100 billion brain cells to the table. No matter where a person sits on the Earth, they possess the potential to be the best of us, the smartest, the kindest, the wisest of us. Our species savior is most likely sitting in a shanty town or favela somewhere living a life of quiet desperation.

We will also need something for people to want to do, something to aspire to, something which can benefit not only individuals but all the species on the planet. Most importantly, we have to give the capacity for human development to the maximum of their potential to everyone on the planet.

(1) Basic Income (from basicincome.org)

A basic income is an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. It is a form of minimum income guarantee that differs from those that now exist in various European countries in three important ways:

it is being paid to individuals rather than households;

it is paid irrespective of any income from other sources;

it is paid without requiring the performance of any work or the willingness to accept a job if offered.

Liberty and equality, efficiency and community, common ownership of the Earth and equal sharing in the benefits of technical progress, the flexibility of the labour market and the dignity of the poor, the fight against inhumane working conditions, against the desertification of the countryside and against interregional inequalities, the viability of cooperatives and the promotion of adult education, autonomy from bosses, husbands and bureaucrats, have all been invoked in its favour.

(2) Saving the Earth (example: the Great Green Wall)

The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (French: Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel) is a planned project to plant a wall of trees across Africa at the southern edge of the Sahara desert as a means to prevent desertification. It was developed by the African Union to address the detrimental social, economic and environmental impacts of land degradation and desertification in the Sahel and the Sahara.

Other examples include: the anti-desertification effort in northern China, see Three-North Shelter Forest Program.

Creating a world wide series of programs whose collective mission is to repair the damage done to the Earth by Human habitation. Let people spread out and reclaim soil for smaller more sustainable communities. Reverse desertification, clean and process the evidence of human habitation.

Regulate the remaining resources of the Earth in a way where we are slowing the creation of greenhouse gases, restabilizing ecosystems, slowing the destruction of non-renewable old-growth forests, the biodiversity of the Amazon and other regions under stress from Human habitation. This could be the most important movement the Human race would ever undertake, the goal to stabilize the planet before the ecosystem which sustains our species collapses, first in the oceans and then everywhere else. Once this happens, humanity will experience massive losses of life unseen on Earth in eons.

(3) Create a world-spanning space program

Rekindle the enthusiasm for space the world had in the 1960s. Devote, significant time, energy, money and resources for the development of new programs to move humanity toward real exploration of the solar system with the goal of building a significant presence, first on the moon, then on Mars.

This would require the creation of resources to get materials into space using a cost-effective, reusable means, reducing the amount of space garbage floating around the Earth, refining our space science and technologies for building facilities capable of sustaining humanity for long periods on other worlds, with the ultimate goal of establishing footholds in the solar system capable of sustaining Humans indefinitely without life support services from Earth.

While this planet-wide operation is taking place, on the ground there needs to be a renewed effort for optimizing our current technological footprint, improving our energy supplies, while reducing our needs for fossil fuels, relying on renewable, cleaner energies where possible.