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DQ 11 Create your initial post on the DQ 11 Discussion Board in response to the following questions: Review TED Talk: by Andrew McAfee entitled "Are Droids Taking Our Jobs?" found at TED.COM; Search for title or author. Review the above video presentation and provide your response to the below listed questions as part of your DQ post. • What revolution does the presenter specifically address? • Per the presenter, what does our U.S. economy run on? Is the best really still yet to come? How do we manage the transition discussed in the video? BTW - not much was covered during presentation... What are some of the most endangered jobs in the future, and why? Why is the new Machine Age the best news? (quality, prices, abundance) So are you as confident that technology will free up society to solve worldwide issues, or will it simply be used to line the pockets of the rich?

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1) The speaker was taking about how technology particularly droids and machines are taking the jobs of people or simply replacing them in economy and he talks about the future that is yet to come.

2) As per the presenter, the US economy runs on ideas, the quality of work by individuals not by some industries or companies.

3) Yes the presenter mentions that the best is yet to come, here by this statement as conclusion the presenter says that the droids are actually taking the job but at the same time he also mentions that this is also helping people for better innovations he mentions a good example of fishermen in Kerala state in India how technology has helped them so he mentions that this is going to get better and the best is yet to come.

4) By transition the presenter meant how the economy jobs are slowly getting replaced by droids and how it is improving the productivity the presenter also mentions that due to this kind of recession the economy is growing at rapid pace and businesses are growing on wide scale at the same time its pushing the people for better innovations so he mentions that how this transition is helping people for better innovations.

5) In the presentation the presenter mentions few that are already getting replaced by machines and software like a human translator who is required if any one travels to a new place but now this service is replaced by just a simple translator application in a phone which is available for free and online article writers are getting replaced by software algorithms which can write articles on their own. A specific AI by IBM has beaten a 74 times champion in row person in a quiz Google's self driving truck can replace jobs of truck drivers in upcoming decades, so these are the jobs mentioned by presenter that are being replaced are going to get replaces by droids.

6) The machine ages is a good news as per the presenter because it is helping people who are unable to use technology as they are pushing people for greater innovations and helping people making their ideas come to reality in short the machines are doing the physical work and letting people do the innovation.

7) I feel that the technology is getting better although it might line the pockets of rich a little but it is also helping people who actually need it the most and giving people better innovations.