| It is my contention that in the future there will be an | | | | directors and executive management to decide who |
| artificially intelligent supercomputer running most large | | | | gets a pink slip, and who doesn't. |
| corporations, and they will use a business digital | | | | In fact, I bet these super computers will be sending |
| nervous system very similar to what Bill Gates | | | | people notices that they may laid off in the future in |
| described in his book "Business at the Speed of | | | | the event that the probability reaches 50%, just so |
| Thought." That is to say that the central computer will | | | | they can stay within the law, and make drastic cuts in |
| be hooked up in real-time to every cash register, | | | | payroll at exactly the appropriate time. Someday in the |
| every inventory computer, the company's accounting | | | | future your friend might tell you; "My Robotic Boss |
| system, and it will know where its sales are coming | | | | Fired Me Today!" |
| from, the profit made in each area, as well as the | | | | As impersonal as this might sound, you can expect this |
| losses. | | | | will occur in the future, but you can also expect that |
| Indeed it will constantly make decisions which are best | | | | those companies which are being run by |
| for the company's bottom line, future quarterly profits, | | | | supercomputers will be run extremely well, and they |
| and shareholder's equity. Since this robotic | | | | will make better decisions in advance, and therefore, |
| supercomputer will not be programmed with human | | | | they may over time lay-off less people, and end up |
| emotions, it will do what it must do to remain | | | | hiring more people. In other words, you might be much |
| ultra-efficient and to make a profit. This means, that in | | | | happier working for a robotic artificially intelligent |
| the future you won't have to worry about Chainsaw | | | | computer boss, rather than a mere human mortal boss |
| Al, or a downsizing consultant hired by the board of | | | | like you work for now. Please consider all this. |