An recent article written in Technology Review expresses the advancement of robotics to replace the millions of workers that are employed at the factories in China.The article discusses that this idea has been implemented in order to reach ambitious production goals as well as well as balance the economic, technological, and social future of the country.
The advancement of China’s economy has the potential to reach great lengths in having an advanced market for robotic technology and in the production of labour-intensive robotic systems.
As Turkle discusses, Robots/ computers are intelligent machines. They are performing tasks to help increase the production rate in order for factories to reach the demands of the consumers they export to across the world. The potential these machines have may increase the ambitions of the economy in China. However, in being the highly populated country with a plentiful amount of low-wage workers, where will those people go if “millions” are going to be replaced by these high technology machines?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/544201/china-wants-to-replace-millions-of-workers-with-robots/
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