> You don't have to keep 100 hands on a drilling site for the peak demand if you can effectively schedule.
Exactly, which is why automation is going to kill so many white-collar jobs. "Effectively schedule" means let a computer do it, not Sally Scheduler who has been doing it in Excel only because they forced her to stop using paper and pen.
This article is basically saying "the planes practically fly themselves", and I'm like "yah but do you still see two pilots in the cockpit?".
There might be 50 extra people on a drill site but there's 5,000 in the back office whose jobs could be replaced with some quick programming and no robots.
Exactly, which is why automation is going to kill so many white-collar jobs. "Effectively schedule" means let a computer do it, not Sally Scheduler who has been doing it in Excel only because they forced her to stop using paper and pen.
This article is basically saying "the planes practically fly themselves", and I'm like "yah but do you still see two pilots in the cockpit?".
There might be 50 extra people on a drill site but there's 5,000 in the back office whose jobs could be replaced with some quick programming and no robots.