The
first thought that struck my mind when I listen to the TED-talk ”Are droids taken our jobs” was – is working full time something we
really have to do or is it just the norm we have been living by for
the past century or so? Will the future bring a greater flexibility
to our working life? Droids
will probably change or way of looking at work just like the
industrial revolution did.
My
second thought was that it is amazing how many people nowadays who
make their living from non-essential work, like writing blog
posts about their life, playing sports for a living or any kind of
entertainment. If, or rather when, droids will do a lot of the manual
labour we are doing today, we will have plenty of time to come up
with new professions and new ways of earning money. It will be
interesting to see what the next decade will bring when it comes
to technological development. When I started university 15
years ago mobile phones were almost only used for making phone calls
(very costly phone calls) and today most of us are carrying
a smartphone with us all the time. We have to embrace the
development but at the same time it is wise to be a bit sceptical and
disconnected from time to time.
The future of technology is exciting and I hope I will be able to keep up with at least some of the development.
Hello!
ReplyDeleteGood writing, but it is a bit short.
Do you think there are some negative consequences that follows when droids are taking our jobs, or is it just positive things?
What kind of technology do you think is the next one?
Thank you. I was in a hurry (and late, due to work) when I wrote the text, no real excuse but the truth.
DeleteOne negative consequence would most likely be a lot of unemployed people not willing to (or capable to) change in order to themselves a job in a technology intensive society.
Don't know what will be the next technology, I'm working in shipping and that is the only field of technology I follow with great interest. For shipping I think ship inspections by drones will be main stream quite soon, and within some years we will probably see the first unmanned ships being operated from a shore based office. Interesting times a head, no doubt about that.
I completly agree with your sentiment that it will be exciting to see what the future will bring. But regarding non-essential work, sure it's more common these days but artists, sportsmen and the like have mostly been around for a really long time. However there's been some drastic growth of these types of work in recent times, would you reckon that this type of work is what will takeover once we have the abbility to let droids, machines and robots do the "essential"-tasks?
ReplyDelete(This is just a little nit-picking, but in the first sentence I think you meant "struck" and not "stroke")
You are right that artist and sportsmen have been around for a long time, but in the past not very many of them earned a lot of money on it. I don't know when the first professionl sportsmen came around, 50 years ago?
DeleteAbout the future, I think there will be a need for educated people to do the programming and inventing new solutions but I think there will be an even big portion of the populations working with non-essential work, probably something we haven't even heard about today, who would have guessed 15 years ago that people can make a living from blogging? Or as personal shopper? Or pre-packed groceries delivered to you door?
(Thank you for the word check, I've updated it)