This excellent 15 minute video is well worth watching if you have ever wondered how technology is shaping our societal future. Much of what he covers sounds like science fiction, but it’s not. Technology is replacing human jobs at an unprecedented rate – not just industrial revolution style manual labour, but white collar and creative work too. The conclusion is that before long there will be very few jobs which need humans and which can’t be done better and more cheaply by machines.
We are coming to the end of a period of thousands of years where work was necessary for physical survival and where one’s work defined one’s life.
What will the New Story be for our relationship with life and work?
via kottke.org
source C.G.P. Grey
Wonderful Video. This trend is already happening with over 80% of the developed world’s workforce being employed in the service industry. Manufacturing is already mechanized, this includes agriculture, textiles, and electronics. Hard to imagine a world were robots will be making and serving food and driving public buses.
It is hard to imagine a world where robots will be serving food and driving buses, but no harder, I think, than imagining only a few years ago so many of the things that are widespread and normal today – social media, smartphones…