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RE: Digital age technology and how its changing life

in #technology7 years ago

Great post! You are right that in the future, most of the current jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence. But I believe that other new jobs will be created for humans.
For example, there will be an increased need for engineers and operators for these robots.

There will also be a change in the way employers hire and workers specialize in a job. There will be many and short-term specific tasks that require detailed knowledge. Workers can specialize in more than one field and be more flexible in regards to where they work and what they do.

There is an interesting article about this that you can read here.

“The idea of continuous training is optimistic – I imagine there will be one-day training blitzes where people learn new skills quickly, and then are employed for a month while they’re needed.”

"This means the workforce is more likely to shift towards more part-time, freelance-based work [...] Employers won’t think in terms of employees – they’ll think in terms of specialisms. Who do I need? And for how long? Future work may also be focused around making complex decisions – using creativity, leadership and high degrees of self management.”

Another argument presented in the article is that some tasks that are now considered of social value (as opposed to monetary) will be turned into regular jobs:

The idea of productivity was forged in the industrial revolution, so it’s no surprise that this may soon become an outdated way of viewing work. “There’s no shortage of work in society – there’s loads of jobs like caring, looking after children and volunteer work, for which we do not assign a value".

So after automation, there will still be jobs, with the broad definition of monetary reward. But the work system and job descriptions will be different.

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Thank you very much for this insights, this would be helpful for others as well. Indeed the replacement will definitely create opportunities. I also believe not all jobs can be taken care by machines, the essence of a human is very much needed. Its imperative for all to learn and keep up with technology.