Question: Is there a 'trade' that you could learn today that won't..

[Michael_W]

Sorry, I didn't say that they don't ever break down.

Just that they are not prone to it.

Being prone to something means it happens often.

 

 

 

Ultimately you will always need someone to give instructions. But there's no reason that machines that do maintenance on other machines can't be created (it's just not economical at the moment).

 

I appreciate that some maintenance could be automated and some already is, as is the case with any repetitive operation, engineering and manufacturing in general have seen a great deal of automation particularly in high volume production environments where it has been cost effective to do so.

However the days of plant and machinery or even robots repairing themselves is a very long way off, fault diagnosis yes that already exists but it will require something very special to replace the knowledge, the skill and dexterity of human hands or the cooperation between the brain and the human eye.

[ANGELFIRE1]

I have not read all the posts, so it probably has been said before.

 

Funeral Director, a job for life (excuse pun) if ever there was one.

 

Angel1.

[PeteMorris]

According to this, people who earn less than £14 per hour are likely to be replaced by robots. But the last line of the article say 'other' jobs will be found, although it doesn't specify doing what!

 

So if you're on minimum wage, you're down the creek without a paddle.