Professional Issues in Creative Media Post 5 - They Terk Ur JERBS!!!

This week's class consisted of us going to the screening room about watching a documentary about the history, making of & future of the internet, as well as touching upon artificial intelligence among other things. In another class we were watching this video called, 'Humans Need Not Apply'. It's a very interesting video and also quite disturbing when you think about it. The idea that almost every job with a human worker can be replaced with an robot seems very real and is likely to happen soon enough. I have read many other things relating to the future of mankind's connection to A.I and the more bleak future of A.A.I (Advanced Artificial Intelligence).

But I want to could about normal robots for a second. The kind that makes our lives easier and gives us a faster and more comfortable experience in almost all aspects. But there is a problem that you can see happening very soon. What happens when 100 workers are replaced by 10 machines and 1 worker to maintain and overlook the 10 machines. That's 99 workers out of a job so that we could all have a more comfortable experience. It's already happened in so many places. Most noticeably Amazon drones and carriers replace the need for so many stock workers and deliverers. Again with Tesco where we see 1 worker standing in the corner keeping an eye on roughly 8 self service tills.

It's not just jobs. I mentioned in class that there is currently a population crisis in Japan at the moment. Schools and hospitals are closing everywhere due to the lack of people in the area. According to the researchers, people nowadays are having 1 child per couple, Whereas to maintain a steady population, a couple must have 2 children. A survey was conducted with over 7,000 japanese residents ages 20-39. There are more detailed figures but roughly 37.6% of Japanese people aren't interested in sex or relationships.

There are several reasons but a study shows that the main reason is because of the amount of virtual boyfriend/girlfriend game simulators and sex items that are commonly sold around Japan is staggering. Japanese sex laws are a lot more loose than western laws and because of this, sex is very easily sold, especially since the legal age of consent is 13 years old, opposed to the usual 18.
Because of the high rate and many forms of relationship/sex simulators, a lot of Japanese people are now uninterested with a standard relationship or sex, causing the population to decrease.

So there you go. Robots. Taking our jobs and now taking our wives. Oh the humanity...