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.
