Online reflection 2 - Are droids taking our jobs?

I´ve been watching the speech “Are droids taking our jobs” by Andrew McAfee. It´s a lecture about how the technology has developed in the last years and how it quickly is being a part of almost every job. So the question is “are the droids taking our jobs?” I think the answer to that question is yes. Or at least we are giving our jobs to them, because it´s still up to us to decide which jobs we want the robots to manage.

Okay the droids could be the reasons why so many people are without jobs. But I will not believe in that. The droids are a help to us people. They can manage to do the same task for hours and hours, which we people can´t do without getting damages and also without getting bored. So the robots will just save us from doing repetitive tasks.

In the speech Andrew is referring to the translate service of words that is to be found in different sites on the Internet. He´s saying that for some years ago the translation had to be done by a person and nowadays it´s just to type the word at the site and the translated word will come out of it. I thought that was a bit of a weird comparison. When you´re on a trip or a conversation is taking place between two people speaking different languages a interpreter is an excellent help. No wordlist on the internet or app can compare to that.

But as Andrew was saying in the speech, the robots should be used in the right ways. The challenge is now to take care of all the resources in people and make sure people with good educations and qualifications will work with tasks that are well adapted to their educations. New jobs will come up even if some of the jobs are taken by robots. We just need to keep educate ourselves and keep on developing our systems so they will keep up with the future. 

Online reflection 1

After Reading the text From relationships to revolutions: seven ways Facebook has changed the World published in The Guardian it made me think about my own way of using Facebook. I joined Facebook in 2009 and I remember that from the start Facebook were a place to post pictures, tell people were I where and what I was doing. It was also an excellent way of keeping track of new relationships between people I did not know well enough to ask but well enough to be curious about. You needed Facebook, otherwise  you could miss important stuff about people you knew and, more important, about the people you didn´t knew.

Nowadays my way of using Facebook looks a bit different. My main purpose of beeing a member of Facebook is to keep in touch with old friends back at home, communicate with workgroups in school and at work and of course to invite and get invited to parties and other arrangements. Some people do still use Facebook as an everyday-communication to the rest of the world but I´m not one of those. I can post a picture, like once in a year or something, but that´s only when I feel I have something really fun or important I want to share. I don´t feel the need to share my everyday-life with everyone, but I still love seeing what everybody else is sharing.

Very often when I grab my phone the first thing I do is checking Facebook. I know for sure nothing super important has happened since I checked it last time, for like 30 minutes ago, but still I need to check it. I don´t know how I, and the rest of the world, could turn out like this. I guess the most of us feel some kind of need to see if something new has happened, so that we always "know the latest stuff" when we get into a conversation with someone.

As written in the article Facebook has turned in to an huge informer of all kinds of news. I think that´s great! I never take the time to read a newspaper when I´m at home or have the time just because I want to know what´s have happened in the world. I never feel like that´s the most productive thing to do. But still I uses Facebook, which can be very unproductive. Then it´s great that those two has combined so I can get som news at the same time as scroll down my facebookfeed to se what my friends are up to. That makes Facebook funnier, more interesting and more okay to spend some time on.

In the future I think Facebook will keep develop in the same direction as the passed years. In our everyday-life with work, families, friends, aktivities, houses, cooking and everything else we need it to keep track of the world and what´s happens around us!