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Kusadikika
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 5:46:53 PM
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At a farmer's command, autonomous tractors can drive from a parking area along private roads to a field and begin work without any intervention.



What will happen to her?


2012
#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 6:44:33 PM
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Kusadikika wrote:
At a farmer's command, autonomous tractors can drive from a parking area along private roads to a field and begin work without any intervention.



What will happen to her?




Unreversable reality. They say 'it's impossible to stop an idea whose time has come'. Even if you intervene, you would only be postponing the inevitable.
The people who should be worried are the manufacturers of that tractor because someone is already thinking up or building a better one.

We are either living in very exciting times or very worrying times depending on someone chooses to view the world. Again based on the same assumptions, technology either creates jobs or kills jobs.

BBI will solve it
:)
Kusadikika
#3 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 8:48:53 PM
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You are right @2012 these are very interesting times and what I find even more worrying is that the technology does not even have to be here to affect us. These tractors and other technologies could be deployed in Russia, or Ukraine or Zambia or South Africa or Mexico and if they are so efficient as to be able to produce Maize at Ksh. 500 a gunia, a very hard working farmer here will still be crying "haki yetu" asking the government to buy his maize at Ksh.3,000 a gunia. With efficient transportation like SGR very soon all these commodities will be available at prices which local producers will have a hard time beating.
2012
#4 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 9:41:11 PM
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One thing I've always hated about our politics is that it divides the nation so much until we don't realize just how small and insignificant Kenya is on the global stage. Technology is our key, it equalizes all nations as it does not discriminate. We could move 20 years ahead in just one year. I've been following events in the quiet Scandinavian countries and those guys are silently moving ahead. Norway for an easy example has shut down FM radio and transitioned to digital radio, now you can run a radio station from your house with the available technology. That will obviously kill jobs from the traditional stations which are run by the retiring folks but create more jobs for the young citizens.
Think about our radio situation for a minute; our radio media is lost, you only need to be an 'upcoming' comedian to get a job yet there are young people who have studied and qualified for those jobs but their best bet is to look for work in professional media companies like BBC.
Anyway, I digress, this is how future jobs for the youth will be created and it's inevitable, by letting nature phase out traditional jobs and not giving them 30% govt allocation so they can deliver flowers and water to govt offices. It's time we stopped thinking that we're advancing and start getting our citizens to do a little traveling out of Kenya to see what's coming.

BBI will solve it
:)
harrydre
#5 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:13:38 PM
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it's like asking in the late 70's what will happen to the type writer secretaries and all those Telkom switch board mamas.

These tractors have actually been around for sometime and the only reason they are not here yet, is our small scale nature of farming. So mama jembe will still enjoy another decade or so of mkulima na jembe yake.

i.am.back!!!!
essyk
#6 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:35:21 PM
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what will happen to her?
consult atwoli because I can hear washenziii in the background.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
EngineerLMG
#7 Posted : Tuesday, December 19, 2017 11:53:10 PM
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Posting this here just in case:

If anyone is willing to fund research into something like this, or to provide machinery that can be upgraded, do get in touch?
murchr
#8 Posted : Wednesday, December 20, 2017 12:00:09 AM
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2012 wrote:
One thing I've always hated about our politics is that it divides the nation so much until we don't realize just how small and insignificant Kenya is on the global stage. Technology is our key, it equalizes all nations as it does not discriminate. We could move 20 years ahead in just one year. I've been following events in the quiet Scandinavian countries and those guys are silently moving ahead. Norway for an easy example has shut down FM radio and transitioned to digital radio, now you can run a radio station from your house with the available technology. That will obviously kill jobs from the traditional stations which are run by the retiring folks but create more jobs for the young citizens.
Think about our radio situation for a minute; our radio media is lost, you only need to be an 'upcoming' comedian to get a job yet there are young people who have studied and qualified for those jobs but their best bet is to look for work in professional media companies like BBC.
Anyway, I digress, this is how future jobs for the youth will be created and it's inevitable, by letting nature phase out traditional jobs and not giving them 30% govt allocation so they can deliver flowers and water to govt offices. It's time we stopped thinking that we're advancing and start getting our citizens to do a little traveling out of Kenya to see what's coming.


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TRUTH.

What were traditional jobs in the 1800s died as technology advanced. Think the candle stick maker's job was taken away by electricity.

This November, my casual workers were charging exorbitantly ku palilia shamba such that I've decided to research on herbicides and mechanization.

Technology kills but also brings about other new jobs. Atwoli indeed will shout "sheenzi" but its time.

"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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