Jobs threatened by machines
We have been discussing this...here are some related links:
1)These jobs are most likely to be taken by a computer
2)Intelligent Machines: The jobs robots will steal first
3)The new white-collar fear: will robots take your job?
A few key ideas to note:
-Increasingly, technology is not just taking over low-skilled blue-collar jobs, but also modestly-skilled (and even high-skilled?) white-collar jobs.
-But remember, it doesn't just destroy jobs, but creates new jobs as well, esp those that command better wages.
-Machines are adept at tasks which are routine, repetitive, standardised e.g. those involving recording and transmitting.
-Humans can do their part to protect their rice-bowls by focusing on those skills that are hard for machines to replicate, those involving creativity, empathy and problem-solving.
-At the end of the day, the winning formula is inevitably a combination of both machines and humans working side by side, complementing each other
-there will always be some jobs that will always have a place for humans...eg. those hand-made Famous Amos cookies still have a strong presence despite being more expensive, even though machine-made ones can be bought off the shelves of supermarkets at a much cheaper price. Likewise, your hawker centre food sellers will still be there cooking your food even as machine-made ones and micro-wave prepared foods are available. High-end restaurants will always have a human chef cooking your food......What about clothes? artists? Would you pay for an SSO concert performed by robots?
1)These jobs are most likely to be taken by a computer
2)Intelligent Machines: The jobs robots will steal first
3)The new white-collar fear: will robots take your job?
A few key ideas to note:
-Increasingly, technology is not just taking over low-skilled blue-collar jobs, but also modestly-skilled (and even high-skilled?) white-collar jobs.
-But remember, it doesn't just destroy jobs, but creates new jobs as well, esp those that command better wages.
-Machines are adept at tasks which are routine, repetitive, standardised e.g. those involving recording and transmitting.
-Humans can do their part to protect their rice-bowls by focusing on those skills that are hard for machines to replicate, those involving creativity, empathy and problem-solving.
-At the end of the day, the winning formula is inevitably a combination of both machines and humans working side by side, complementing each other
-there will always be some jobs that will always have a place for humans...eg. those hand-made Famous Amos cookies still have a strong presence despite being more expensive, even though machine-made ones can be bought off the shelves of supermarkets at a much cheaper price. Likewise, your hawker centre food sellers will still be there cooking your food even as machine-made ones and micro-wave prepared foods are available. High-end restaurants will always have a human chef cooking your food......What about clothes? artists? Would you pay for an SSO concert performed by robots?
posted by Dark Shadow | 3:28 PM
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