I woke up thinking about the future

in #blog7 years ago

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The increase in technological advancement has been very stern in one of its agendas and that's eliminating a lot of jobs. I woke up asking myself if we would have people who do real work in 2080.

What would it look like? will I wake up, say good morning to my family, assign tasks to my AI based assistant, book a self driving car and eat meals made by robots ?🤔😑 With the pace of innovation am beginning to think I would not even have to speak as machines will be able to read minds and just implement our thoughts, 🤣. This way the work of assigning work is done away with.

In the midst of my imaginations I realized I was heading towards confusion. I was seeing it all wrong. While they might be less jobs, it doesn't mean that there will be less work. In fact man would actually have to do more to sustain such technological advancement. Trying to avoid human errors when interacting with a machine is work in itself.

Take a peek in history, men didn't work the number of hours they do now when we where just hunters and farmers. As knowledge increased and some jobs such as the clan town cryer is eliminated it's created many more jobs to fill such positions like news casters, bloggers, editors, writers etc. A good armoury consisted of some dope shields ,helmets, swords, spears, bows and arrows, and that was most times enough. All you needed to make those where men skilled with manipulating metals but building one weapon such as an AK 47 these days needs a lot of hands, I won't even talk about nuclear weapons. I hope you follow.

So in real sense the more advanced we get, the more work will be created and in turn the more jobs. So while technology puts out some kind of job, it creates about five more in that single category with the downside rendering those with the latter skill jobless. So when next you think of the future, have it in mind that there would be a lot of work to be done, more skills required. They might actually be less work for the rich since they will get to afford all the tech you will work your ass building and maintaining, lol 😁😂🤣.

So how do you prepare yourself?, while working that desk job, begin to familiarise yourself with ideas, ideals and skills that look futuristic so just incase some tiny machine is made to replace you as a consultant(crazy, why would I want to consult with a machine?🤔😐), you have the skill to be actively involved in building such and maintaining it which would mean you still are a consultant only this time anonymously(can't really say if that made any sense🙄)

Ensure to have an amazing weekend away from the stress of weekdays.

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Of course @davidekpin I think the place of humans cannot be over emphasized. Bots or robots you call it, do malfunction and humans will be the one to fix it. Humans will be the one to offer commands to the robots. But I understand your fear.

But here is the solution I often share with my friends:

Acquire a relevant skill in your area of interest and you will stay relevant regardless of robots

There are people that because of their knowledge, their capacity and technical know how, they are indispensable to any organization they find themselves.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts

If you read well, you would see that we just said the same thing. I actually have no fear. I said there will be more work and more jobs to be filled.

Great line of thought.... In my opinion it's very important that we position ourselves properly by acquiring skill that keep us relevant to the world no matter the technological advancement.

The world is changing rapidly in a very fast pace of technology, download developments in science is being advanced on a daily basis. It's a sure thing that hard jobs, needing great human efforts will be tackled effortlessly. But then, there might just be more machines in the world than humans. 😡 🤖 iRobot activated#Lol.steemon bro, nice piece.

Hahaha, too much machine apocalypse movies. But for sure there's rapid change going on.

Nice peace, imagination is power. Those who can't imagine will be left behind

As it has always been....

As technology advances we need to advance because it leaves us with more work....

Watch more foreign movies too, you'll learn more

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