Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford brought on a lot of different perspectives about robots. What it made me realize is that we humans are a lot smarter and more capable than we give ourselves credit. To start, the beginning of the article discussed how our brains act differently than robots because we can perceive complicated 3D situations and immediately be able to make sense of it. While a robot would need to take time to process the image, and cannot understand 3D images. However, new technology that was created that allowed for Nintendo’s and other gaming systems that made the games more interactive for their users. This transformed the way people saw gaming systems and also allowed for robot like systems to be able to see and produce 3D images. The way robots have been able to transform is quite amazing, but our brains are already way smarter and sometimes faster than robots are which we as a society need to recognize.
The way robots have risen to their popularity is because they have taken over industries to create mass production. For example, China took advantage of robots in the car industry. Foreign cars are more popular than American made cars because China took advantage of the automation and created hundreds of thousands of cars immediately. This took jobs away from people and is one of the main reasons why places like Detroit became so impoverished so quickly If every industry started to move away from human work and towards robots, what would happen to the people? What would we do as a society if we did not have to work. Would depression decrease, the standard of living increase, and life expectancy increase? Or would it be the complete opposite?