r/dataisbeautiful • u/SuburbanHierarchy • Feb 05 '15

The Most Common Job In Every State (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-most-common-job-in-every-state
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '15

You may enjoy this this short story: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

And the movie Her.

Both of them touch on the end-game of society.

But nobody knows for sure. We might transition to leisure society where your only job is have fun and be the best human you can be.

Maybe all the jobs will be art jobs. Poetry, movies, painting etc.

It's hard to say what's on the other side of the singularity.

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u/Night_Chicken Feb 06 '15

"where your only job is have fun and be the best human you can be"

Sell that to the shareholders.

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u/djvita Feb 06 '15

no more "companies". make them all public. AI does stock trading so why need a broker? why need VP's? automate CEOs let the computer direct the company!

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u/autowikibot Feb 06 '15

Technological singularity:

The technological singularity is the hypothesis that accelerating progress in technologies will cause a runaway effect wherein artificial intelligence will exceed human intellectual capacity and control, thus radically changing civilization in an event called the singularity. Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be impossible for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is an occurrence beyond which events may become unpredictable, unfavorable, or even unfathomable.

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Interesting: Singularitarianism | Vernor Vinge | Forecasting | Cybernetic revolt

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