Farmers becoming obsolete

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Robot farmers have successfully planted and harvested barley by themselves...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/robot-farmers-harvest-barley/

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[Thomas]

I am sure one day this will happen,but now its seems like a bad recipe waiting to happen.

 

[RNeumann]

I get it- haha - we call that a "dad joke"

 

[airbiscuit]

It's already happening. We WILL see driverless trucks on the interstates in 5 years. Technology is changing all the rules for jobs and careers. Just ask the coal miners. Better to learn tomorrow's technology than cling to the past.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I don't know about that. Everyday I HATE my I-Phone more. Barely an Icon on there that I know what it means and I can't be bothered and don't want to learn. I thought these things were supposed to be so dammm intuitive? The only button I really know and like is the HOME button and I understand they just did away with that! Sometimes, I think it might be a blessing to just die early.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

This is just the next step in a progression that's been going on for 200 years. The sickle mower made scythe-men obsolete. The cotton gin. The mechanical reaper. The tractor. The baler. The combine.

 

[airbiscuit]

This is just the next step in a progression that's been going on for 200 years. The sickle mower made scythe-men obsolete. The cotton gin. The mechanical reaper. The tractor. The baler. The combine.

The horse, the steam tractor, the John Deere B .......

 

[Industrial Toys]

It bothers me, how flaky and of poor quality new technology is. If it works MOST of the time, that's good enough. And if no one can ever establish why it doesn't work the rest of the time, that's good enough too.

Compare that to the old Bell system. I like to watch the old archived videos. One was called "Failure Is Not An Option" Boy, how phone service has changed!

 

[smstonypoint]

This is just the next step in a progression that's been going on for 200 years. The sickle mower made scythe-men obsolete. The cotton gin. The mechanical reaper. The tractor. The baler. The combine.

And 200+ years ago, 90% of the workforce was on farms.

Steve

 

[Walt 2002]

It's already happening. We WILL see driverless trucks on the interstates in 5 years. Technology is changing all the rules for jobs and careers. Just ask the coal miners. Better to learn tomorrow's technology than cling to the past.

Such ideas are ridiculous until hacking can be prevented. Can you imagine the carnage they could create.

Walt Conner

 

[BigBoyToys]

Young people have not been taught how to work. They do not want to work. And even if you can get them to show up, it is impossible for them to get anything done with that phone in one hand all day long.

Couldn't have said it any better!!!! :applause:
"Social Media" will be the downfall of this country!!!

 

[/pine]

Couldn't have said it any better!!!! :applause:
"Social Media" will be the downfall of this country!!!

MTV was the first shoe...!

 

[JRobyn]

It gives me hope for the world and our society that at least a FEW of today's kids still know what WORK is and how to do it. One of my daughters teaches 4th and 5th grade in a rural public school, is also their ESL teacher, sings every week in the church choir, is the Wednesday night church kids leader, AND is mom to a VERY busy 18 mo. old. Way more than I could handle, even when I was her age!

 

[BigBoyToys]

It gives me hope for the world and our society that at least a FEW of today's kids still know what WORK is and how to do it.

I'm very fortunate as well! My daughter graduated as an RN, worked for 3 years to get her ICU critical care experience, and is now in her last year at DUKE, soon to be a a nurse anesthetist. They were so impressed with her clinical performance and reviews that they've already offered her a stipend and a position. My son graduated from UNC and has a great job working in Charlotte. As parents, my wife and I instilled "respect", a "good work ethic" and "common sense" into their lives staring at a very young age. It really isn't that hard...you just have to be INVOLVED and not substitute money/things for parenting.

 

[Valveman]

The apples don't fall far from the tree. We just don't have enough "good" trees for them to be falling out of these days.

 

[Paddy]

Funny how we totally accept our current "tools", but if a new tool comes along it a new fangled thing we can all do with out. The teamsters likely said the same thing about the vary tractors we play/work with on this site. Same for cars and planes

Yes, I can and know how to put down shingles the old fashion way, hammer and nails. But using a nail gun pays for itself in the first 15 hours of use. When a saw a Saws-All, Reciprocating saw, 35 years ago, I couldn't see it would be that useful. Now I can see how we did with out them!

Last week I was talking with an "old timer" who work at a construction supply house for 40 years. He said they would unload a truck load of concrete blocks by hand, cart them back to the warehouse. He said they never thought anything about it, just 3-4 guys working all day. Many years later, the owner showed up with a forklift and one guy could unload the truck in 15 min. And nobody complained

My grandfather was born in 1900 and passed in 2008, can't even image all the change he saw in his lifetime. Born before the car and planes and when he was 69, man on the moon.

Like is change

 

[newbury]

<snip> Just stop paying people to have more babies and to do nothing. Immigrants will stop coming here unless they want to work, and locals can have the jobs instead of the robots, if they will just show up for a few hours and be productive.

Or enact a variation of China's "one child" policy.

The apples don't fall far from the tree. We just don't have enough "good" trees for them to be falling out of these days.

Too many apples falling from the same trees.

 

[turnkey4099]

Amen to that, being in the hvac business for 45 years we worked 10-12 hour days 6-7 days a week in 100deg weather. You worked or got fired, kids now wouldn't last a week.

It isn't just recent. 1971 I worked in an iron foundry in San Angelo Tx as a way to 'get in shape' to retire. I wanted to do something physical in retirement, flew a chair for 21 years, that was enought/ Not unusual local college football coach would send team members down to it to get part-time jobs to shape up some. Start of shift, 4 new ones were there. An hour later one of them asked who was the boss. I pointed out a little mexican. He went to him, couple words and the 4 of them left never to be seen again. I guess wrestling 150 lb castings was a bit too much for them.