Everyone should see this video, and literally just meditate on it. Especially in poor countries like India. We should gather around at watering holes and discuss this ad nauseam.
Maybe education will save us. It is therefore vitally important that we put all of our children through school. As a society. And actually impart them an education. Real knowledge. Real skills. Real creativity and independence of thought. Because menial jobs are all but gone.
Yes, we are still a country that sends our youth to the killing fields of underground sewers. Something that was automated a century ago in the West. But notice the street cleaning machines in the big cities. The machines are coming.
And more are on their way. Something has changed. China is making robots now. It is making them cheap. It is making them by the wagon loads. It is using them, and therefore perfecting them.
While China is automating manual labour with robots, the west is automating desk jobs using AI. You think your middle class white collar job is safe? Face the facts. More than half your time in the office is spent doing inane administrative tasks. Filling forms. Getting reimbursed. Clicking through a maze of ERP and CRM systems. With all of that gone, productivity will shoot through the roof. And employment will fall through the floor.
If you have children, you have to think ten years ahead. Twenty years ahead. This isn't science fiction any more. Skills are passé. What abilities and personality traits can you impart your child? Creativity. Empathy. Courage. The ability to listen, communicate, educate, lead, visualise.
Here is my opinion. You can automate the job of a surgeon (or build robots and systems that make a surgeon 4x more productive, thereby reducing surgeon jobs by 75%. Same thing.) But can you automate the caring touch of a nurse? MOOCs only eliminate professors; you still need the teaching assistants to help those left behind. Those jobs that require you to connect with other humans, either through empathy, understanding, or art, will survive.
The rest, as they say, will be history.
Maybe education will save us. It is therefore vitally important that we put all of our children through school. As a society. And actually impart them an education. Real knowledge. Real skills. Real creativity and independence of thought. Because menial jobs are all but gone.
Yes, we are still a country that sends our youth to the killing fields of underground sewers. Something that was automated a century ago in the West. But notice the street cleaning machines in the big cities. The machines are coming.
And more are on their way. Something has changed. China is making robots now. It is making them cheap. It is making them by the wagon loads. It is using them, and therefore perfecting them.
While China is automating manual labour with robots, the west is automating desk jobs using AI. You think your middle class white collar job is safe? Face the facts. More than half your time in the office is spent doing inane administrative tasks. Filling forms. Getting reimbursed. Clicking through a maze of ERP and CRM systems. With all of that gone, productivity will shoot through the roof. And employment will fall through the floor.
If you have children, you have to think ten years ahead. Twenty years ahead. This isn't science fiction any more. Skills are passé. What abilities and personality traits can you impart your child? Creativity. Empathy. Courage. The ability to listen, communicate, educate, lead, visualise.
Here is my opinion. You can automate the job of a surgeon (or build robots and systems that make a surgeon 4x more productive, thereby reducing surgeon jobs by 75%. Same thing.) But can you automate the caring touch of a nurse? MOOCs only eliminate professors; you still need the teaching assistants to help those left behind. Those jobs that require you to connect with other humans, either through empathy, understanding, or art, will survive.
The rest, as they say, will be history.