On the eve of the "advanced and progressive" educational projects SkillFactory and Data Science published a calendar of the extinction of modern professions for 2020. The authors included in it a list of 50 specialties, and also offered their arguments for the reasons for their "extinction", of course, with references to the previous forecasts of various NGOs of foresight transhumanists. Upon closer examination, their theses may seem to any sane person to be complete nonsense, moreover, contrary to real statistics and the state of affairs in the field of employment. However, it should be admitted that these theorizing actually turned into the official economic policy of the Russian comprador financial bloc, manipulatively putting on one side of the scales the “big leap forward”, “efficiency and optimization” of the economy, and on the other - social stability, jobs,which means the very existence of tens of millions of citizens (now we are talking only about Russia, although the problem is global). Let's think a little about the essence of the future world, which its architects deliberately build on the bones of "extra people".
Digitizers in their "professional obituary" sincerely believe that in January 2020, the professions of journalist, lecturer and concierge will die out (ie become completely irrelevant). Then the same fate allegedly awaits pilots, security guards, teachers, lawyers, cooks, surgeons, designers and TV presenters. The authors of the calendar regularly back up their inventions with references to the Atlas of New Professions, a project of the “experts” of the Skolkovo School of Management and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), which was analyzed in August this year In fact, this is another remake of the neo-Malthusian theory of the "golden billion" and other ideas of the global "owners of money", according to which hundreds of millions of people on the planet "will not fit into the market" and must "prepare for the earth" - this is the fate of all "non-progressive" Soviet citizens were prepared in the 90s of the 20th century by the privatizer Anatoly Chubais. Now his followers decided to move at an accelerated pace: if the "Atlas of Professions" predicted the death of 57 types of employment in ten years, then the new programmers of consciousness expect to "fulfill the plan" in 12 months.
Here is the argumentation “professional gravediggers” offer, for example, for the profession of a journalist: “Already now part of the journalist's work is quite successfully performed by neural networks. Today, artificial intelligence is able to quickly and efficiently analyze information and create simple materials on its basis in a given style. Their texts can no longer be distinguished from those written by people."
Forgive me generously, but simple materials and “part of the work” are not at all unique journalistic interviews, investigations, reports, not searching for our own news feeds, not traveling to the regions and constantly maintaining contacts with hundreds of speakers, not anti-corruption investigations, often with a risk to life. etc. Naturally, in terms of searching and selecting the necessary information from the same Internet space, "machine learning" can be of great help, but to replace a person in this field … what are the authors of such "forecasts" smoking there? How can, for example, compare an “interview” of a famous politician / art worker with some kind of network bot like “Alice” and a heart-to-heart conversation with an experienced interviewer, who, moreover, perfectly feels the emotional and inner world of the interlocutor, is able to competently place accents, make dialogue alive,interesting and relevant? And how can you imagine an editorial robot knocking over the thresholds of government administrations and trying to highlight abuses? Which bureaucrat will take seriously a car that can be turned off by pressing a button? Or are we now offered to consider "journalism" exclusively rewritten texts, compiled by the "copy / paste" method and change the word order in sentences? Then there are no questions - AI will cope with this task.made by the method "copy / paste" and change the order of words in sentences? Then there are no questions - AI will cope with this task.made by copy / paste and reordering of words in sentences? Then there are no questions - AI will cope with this task.
The absurdity does not end there, and on October 5, 2020, Teacher's Day, big data lovers also bury this great profession:
“Robot teachers are being tested experimentally in different schools - they teach languages, mathematics and other subjects. The main educational trend is the digital revolution, which entails the restructuring of the entire system. The introduction of robots and computer programs, the use of play forms increase the individualization of education. Thanks to this, every child feels attention to himself and assimilates information in the best way."
Does every child feel attention to himself from a piece of iron with microcircuits and thanks to this he will “absorb information in the best way”? Maybe the robot will also fully perform the educational function and become the child's greatest authority? And this growing of a person from the cradle in the environment of robots, his training and communication with computers, and not living beings of his own kind, will have a beneficial effect on his psyche and socialization? Are you serious? Well, for the upbringing of biological objects programmed for a couple of algorithms, not endlessly cognizing the world, but obedient autists who are ready to live in a society controlled in a “manual mode” (as if with the help of AI) - this option is really quite suitable.
As the apotheosis of nonsense, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the rationale of researchers for the imminent disappearance of such a New Year's "profession" as Santa Claus:
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“And what about grandfather? He is also an integral part of the coming of the New Year. But traditions are changing. Various performances and programs appear in VR reality, in which Santa Claus and favorite cartoon characters come to congratulate the child at the same time, and the holiday itself is transferred from the apartment to the intergalactic space, to Hogwarts or to a desert island. Any place that fantasy takes. Grandfather Frost, alas, has to retire and appear only occasionally at the Blue Lights."
And again we are "rubbed in the game" about augmented reality, which is designed to completely replace real communication with living people, incl. deprive children of the joy of the human celebration of the New Year. I turned on the projector / put on a virtual helmet - some pixels "congratulated" you - and you are absolutely happy. Pixels and illusion, together with a “programmed” approach to life in order to optimize and increase efficiency - these are the favorite digital mantras of these cultists.
Now let's go down to earth and evaluate a fresh study (published on December 22, 2019) from the All-Russian Research Institute (VNII) of Labor under the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation, which lists the top 10 most in-demand professions. The first place in it "suddenly" was taken by … salesmen-cashiers! Yes, yes, this is in our "ultra-modern digital reality", where every "progressive" official dreams of self-service and buying goods and services using QR codes (naturally, without change and only using bank customer cards). Chefs are in second place in terms of demand. The third place is occupied by teachers of vocational training and vocational education, that is, the same teachers and lecturers, whom, according to foresight experts, after 2020 there should be almost no remaining in the country. And they also have cooks in the “line for extinction”, because,allegedly "robotic chefs are able to do all the work for people - chop and mix vegetables, determine the proportions of ingredients, measure the temperature of dishes using a thermal scanner." This is simply ingenious - a thermal scanner against the human mouth, tongue and throat, capable of assessing the taste of any dish in the process and at the end of cooking in a human way (!) But apparently, we are invited to gradually move away from everything human …
Social workers, nurses, accountants, lawyers - all of them are on the list of the most in demand today … so let's not forget for a moment that transhumanist foresight is precisely shaping their future, and not at all describing an objective picture and trying to improve it.
Therefore, they continue to shape our consciousness and worldview. In April 2018, the general director of the Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia) Union, Robert Urazov, predicted the following:
“A major personnel revolution awaits Russia in the very near future. Some professions will disappear completely, others will be replaced by robots. To stay competitive in the digital era, people will have to abandon the concept that we learn only once in life and then we work."
According to last year's research by TheBostonConsultingGroup (BCG) and the same union of Young Professionals (WorldSkills Russia) and Sberbank, in the next decade from 9% to 50% of all currently existing professions may disappear due to digitalization. Roughly 65% of today's primary school students will become adults in professions that do not exist today, such as a lawyer in the use of artificial intelligence or a biologist who grows artificial organs. The middle personnel are under attack today: accountants, personnel officers, office managers, administrative personnel. Wherever current technologies for the automation of intellectual activity can replace people, they change them immediately.
Who are the main agents of digital change here again? All familiar faces: the global consulting company "masters of the money", which closely cooperates with Russian comprador officials in the supreme power on state orders, the office of a successful brain transformed at Stanford and Yale, a lover of kabbalah and yogis Herman Gref, as well as the global NGO Worldskills (she told in detail how this structure massively collects personal data of Russian schoolchildren and prepares individual "skills and competencies" from selected children at the request of transnational corporations).
Official federal media consistently provide a platform for such speakers - for example, the already familiar forecasts from the director of the Internet Initiatives Development Fund Kirill Varlamov presented by RIA Novosti:
“The development of robotization in the next 10 years can lead to the automation of about 90% of all work processes in which people are now employed, which in turn will lead to hopeless unemployment for a huge number of Russian citizens - from 6 million to 30 million people. First of all, professions based on low-skilled intellectual activity will disappear completely or partially. Similar segments are present in the work of accountants, lawyers and human resources. There will be people who are involved in organizing, planning, controlling robots, but the very technical office work will disappear.
Over the next 10 years in Russia there will be an active modernization of industries, as a result, up to 6 million jobs will be cut, and for 25 million people the requirements of employers can change so radically that this will lead to the actual disappearance of such jobs. The unemployed will become practically inoperable, Varlamov says.
“Hopeless unemployment” and “practically inoperable” 30 million people - that is, those very “extra people who did not fit into the market” and the rationale for their “write-off” - this is what the Russian venture capital fund IIDF, established … who would have thought ANO Agency for Strategic Initiatives in 2013.
Or, for example, another typically manipulative material (Komsomolskaya Pravda, December 18, 2019), preparing the population for the fact that, in general, no one needs it: “Millions of Russians are doing work that no one needs. Businessmen, officials and economists argue whether to fire extra people or artificially maintain a high level of employment in the country. " It contains a quote, allegedly reported to the author of the material by a certain "person involved in the Russian Forbes list":
“How many employees do we have now, officially or unofficially? More than 70 million. So, in an amicable way, 25 million of them can be safely reduced - the country's economy will not suffer."
Further, the author proposes a false dilemma: what is more important for us, to throw off unnecessary "human ballast", allegedly hindering the effective development of industry and an unprecedented economic breakthrough, or maintaining social stability with minimal unemployment and economic stagnation? “After all, it turns out that about 25 million people in the country are engaged in useless work, the main meaning of which is to keep them afloat,” the author, who either sincerely shares such views, or simply blindly fulfills the order, tells us.
Yes, all this absolutely does not fit with the economic theory of Karl Marx, set forth, in particular, in the "Short course on the history of the CPSU (b)". This theorist instilled in humanity his "absolute truth": when the productive forces reach the peak of technological progress, production relations will inevitably begin to change throughout the world - and then finally there will be no oppressed, humiliated and insulted on Earth, and a complete communist paradise for all will come. and everyone - without money, laws and states. Moreover, this process, according to the same Marx, should have begun in the most developed countries of the West - and for a very long time. In fact, as we can see, everything turned out exactly the opposite: the sharks of capital completely put modern technologies at their service. The money masters triumph, aggressively impose digital slavery on us,their own "anti-values" and, in addition, easily unsubscribe tens and hundreds of millions of "superfluous people" in certain states.
Taking into account all of the above, we come to the main question - and for what, in fact, is all this "great progressive development" of mankind, all these digital revolutions and new technological orders? People are told about unprecedented comfort and convenience, about the appearance of a lot of free time. At the same time, robots will work in large quantities instead of people in industry, service sector, social sphere. It is explained that this is more economically profitable for directors of private and public corporations: great cost savings while maintaining profits. That is, it is beneficial to individuals, the overwhelming minority. The familiar song again is reclaiming the poor and middle class for the benefit of a handful of the super-rich.
But further - more. In the future, these robots will also be trained by neural networks - in the automatic "machine learning" mode. At the same time, robots will also teach our grandchildren and children, feed us, give us legal advice, heal, collect all information about us, control our every step, automatically punish in case of violation of the law, etc. Whole cities and states are planned to be given under the control of "artificial intelligence", which initially, if anyone has forgotten, is nothing more than a set of computing algorithms debugged by human programmers. Individual educational trajectories for each person will also be formed by the same computer algorithms, that is, the role of the human factor in all spheres is deliberately minimized. And with her, all communication with living people - parents, teachers, peers, officials,neighbors, work colleagues, etc. (yes, even with the same Santa Claus on New Year's Day) - is replaced by augmented virtual reality, neural interfaces, global big data networks.
So where is man as such in this world of the future? Its role and its place in the name of "efficiency and optimization" are completely utilitarian. Who needs a “fabulous light paradise” made by robots and for robots, the control of which is completely delegated to a computer? The posthuman or superhuman transhumanists will no longer contain anything human in themselves - both physically (with the exception of individual organs and body parts) and metaphysically. It will be essentially dead, a soulless program, completely subordinated to the will of a handful of those who think they are “the chosen ones”. Whether machines will one day seize power from the "owners of money" is a topic for separate research and philosophizing. But it is already becoming quite obvious that on the wave of digital frenzy, humanity has risen and is deftly heading along the path of complete dehumanization and the end of its own history.