For my first blog post, I'm going to be reflecting on the article called ¨Top 6 Fears About Future Technology¨ by Kevin Dickinson.
Many of the central ideas written about in the article were unreasonable such as killer robots or vicious virtual reality. That's why for this blog, I wanted to go in-depth about one section of the article that I found most reasonable and interesting.
The section of the article that I found most reasonable was Runaway automation. To briefly summarize the section, it addressed how soon robots could take many jobs from humans. The ultimate result of this would be that millions of workers would get replaced, leaving people unemployed.
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Today, technology/robotic machines have taken jobs from humans in many work fields, however, in the near future, this will more of a notable issue. ¨A McKinsey Global Institute study suggests that nearly 70 million people could lose their jobs to automation by 2030.¨ (Kevin Dickinson) To me and my generation, this statistic is very frightening because 2030 will be when we´re all grown up adults looking for employment. However, this is not as much of a fearful statistic for a generation of people like my dad because they´ll be retired.
Some work fields in which jobs could be taken by robots are the taxi industry and assembly-line jobs. Self-driving cars such as Tesla ¨could soon displace 5 million workers nationwide.¨ For people working in the taxi or Uber industry, this is a major threat to their job. ¨A Pew Research report found that 72 percent of US adults surveyed expressed worry over automation, compared with 33 percent who were enthusiastic.¨ (Kevin Dickinson) This shows that many people including me are highly concerned about the future of jobs and how robots are slowly taking jobs away from many fields.
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Rory, you've done a nice job summarizing the issue. Based on the fact that the article focuses on jobs in driving and assembly line work, do you see this as that big of an issue for your generation? If so, what steps are people taking to address this?
ReplyDeleteI like how you started to narrow down the topic, and really focus in on your main point. I also noticed how you added a lot of facts and statistics which helped your point.
ReplyDeleteThanks for feedback Iheck! I appreciate the well thought out comment you've made on my blog post! I'm glad that you noticed my use of facts and statistics... truly amazing observation skills!
Deletei agree with you on how people jobs are getting taken away because of robots
ReplyDeleteI never knew about the self checkouts, till like last weeks when i was shopping with my mom for thanksgiving and i went to the self checkout, but mommy said no, BC each self checkout is a person loosing a job.
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