translated from Spanish: What they have been missing for the public accounts

Every time I hear some kind of account, note or public statement, I hope to find something, even minimal, of The things I read in an international press or alternative analyses. That’s when I saw on HBO, years ago, a documentary on the Congo. There they explained the wars that were in this region by the Columbite and the tantalite, minerals whose mixture produces the coltan, fundamental element in the digital industry and, therefore, in the modern industry. Women and children die there every day, either in wars or in the extraction of these minerals.
This is unknown to most Chileans. Those of us who use the digital industry and those who have become billionaires with it should have some word on this. At least college students, for whom artificial intelligence is fundamental, should be informed. But all this is impossible thanks to the iron monopoly of the print press and the TV.
The accounts talk about the usual, the same repetitions, promises against crime, inequality and pro-growth. Not a word from the president of Chile, one of the countries that has applied the neoliberal capitalist model more orthodoxy, about our immediate future that is exciting and at the same time frightening. Especially for unprotected workers, without the obligation to unionize and without the right to strike since 1973, and then for all young university students and technicians who will not have places to apply what they are learning.
All this is due to the fourth Industrial Revolution which, together with producing inconceivable advances in the world, will diminish, and is already doing, the enormity of jobs.
Of this there is awareness in the European countries that have given a basic income to the citizens, financed with taxes on the use of robots. Also among those who have decreased the working day. In the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Australia and Italy work less than 40 hours a week.
New technologies are daily bread in Europe. The use of wind and solar energy is almost generalized. Electromobility is strongly developed. Roads are already built with unbreakable pavements that absorb solar energy for lighting. The importance of oil will soon disappear. In Japan has invented the Robot Pepper, which interprets emotions, on sale from 2017. Larry Page, founder of Google, has invested nearly $100 million to create the flying car he patented in 2013. The use of drones is generalized, PwC estimates that the business potential of the drones in the world is US $127 billion. They are already used in infrastructure, agriculture and transportation, in security, entertainment and media. In insurance, telecommunications and mining.
Chile is not left behind. It is one of the countries with the highest automation in the OECD and, according to the financial journal, studies by Mc Kinsey conclude that in the next two to four decades 3.2 million of jobs will be replaced by automated systems. Economist Andrea Tokman graphs it by saying that 65% of the jobs that exist today will no longer be when their children enter the labor market.
Already the Metro uses wind and solar power and the new line has no driver. It is at the top of the rules to work with drones that have played a major role in agriculture, from saving lives to detecting incipient pests. On the cover of Antofagasta with them investigates the number and type of birds in the area. They are used in photogrammetry, volume calculations, inspections of all kinds, land recognition. A face drone can carry 10 liters of chemicals and go a lot faster than ground personnel, also do wind shovel inspection.
A Spanish multinational, with an investment of more than $1 million, has announced in Chile the installation of the first Local data center, the fourth worldwide, which will offer cloud computing services for the entire Southern Cone.
The Chilean forestry industry has long since cut and prepare the wood digitally, also the mining, where already the trucks are handled without driver. Chilectra eliminated 50000 energy meters in 2017, although just now there was a clash with consumers. The public administration carries out more and more online actions. The money will soon disappear for your online management.
In the Chilean ports the replacement of human work by digital technology, is generalized since the end of the years 90 with the concession and privatization of these. At the same time, customs modernization occurred. Many functions have been transferred to customs agents, which has been possible due to the incorporation of the EDI system, Exchange Digital Information, which allows safe and expeditious communication.
It is almost picturesque that there is a red robotic, that is to say, a selection of football made of robots, formed, designed and trained by students of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Chile, that began to carry out this work in 2003. This team of 50 cm players is the only team of this type that exists in Latin America, is among the top 10 in the world and intends to win humans in 2050. Meanwhile, he has arrived third four times in the world championships and is preparing to compete this year. Other young people have also built goods with their 3D printers.
On the other hand, electromobility is promoted at all levels, which was materialized in a national private public agreement signed by 38 entities, such as the Ministries of Energy, Environment and transport, in addition to CORFO, the National Energy Commission, Volvo , Nissan, ABB, Peatus, Copec, Enex, the universities of Chile, San Sebastián, Inacap and Duoc UC and others.
This initiative has made it possible to prepare specialized professionals and has entered electric vehicles. The Transantiago has already incorporated one hundred buses of this type that work in the communes of Peñalolén, Ñuñoa, Providencia and Santiago through the route 519 of the operator Metbus. According to Minister of Transport Gloria Hutt: “These buses will deliver a better quality service, not only because they emit no noise or vibration, but because they have various attributes such as WiFi, air conditioning, universal accessibility, cabins Safe for drivers, padded seats and a more comfortable layout with better interior terminations. ”
In addition to initiating the operation of the buses, the companies Enel X, Metbus and BYD launched the first electroterminal in Chile and Latin America, where their chargers are located. They have 11 solar car parks, designed to support photovoltaic panels that generate energy from the sun as a renewable source and will serve as loading points for these new means of transport. It will have 63 loading points, while a new electroterminal, which will be located in Maipu, has another 37 chargers.
Most of the clinics in the country have robots and thousands of operations have been done with these. Many have the most developed robot for surgeries, which is the Da Vinci.
Experts report that at 2040 100% of public transport will be electric in Chile and that in 2045 half of the jobs will be executed by robots.
This is a synthetic and shallow description of what is happening in Chile, where growth and investment indicators do not represent the same as before the application of new technologies. For example, investments in digital industry are not high, and there are times when growth can be affected by the maturing of investment and industrial reconversion.
However, this is no reason not to report this, so as not to prepare for what is occurring in our noses. To not prepare the formation of our young people considering the new technologies.
It is necessary to bear in mind that unemployment will lead many to over-indebtedness and illegal money, which are already a reality in our country. Also to increase the rates of suicide, which is serious in young people.
A serious public account should refer to a phenomenon as drastic as that which means an industrial revolution. Leaders of the country should know that, if they do not charge a tax on robotization, to distribute among the unemployed, illegal industries, such as different types of traffic, will continue to proliferate for more than to put young people’s curfew, review the Backpacks and reinstall the cops in the towns.

Original source in Spanish