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Automation, Not Apocalypse

Automation, Not Apocalypse

Which occupations are expected to experience growth by 2030?

You might have already noticed, but sometimes the conversation around automation and the future of work can get a bit hysterical. "The robots are coming" is one common refrain; "We’re all going to lose our jobs" is another.

However, while people are rightly concerned about how evolving technology will affect their professional and financial well-beings, the work apocalypse probably won’t happen. In fact, Future of Skills: Employment in 2030, a new research report from Pearson, Nesta, and the Oxford Martin School, outlines several jobs and skills that are expected to become […]

Can’t Find A Job? Here’s Why Your Employability Strategy Isn’t Working

Wouldn’t it be terrific if our economy had full employment ? That would mean everyone who is legally able to work, qualified and looking would find a job within a reasonable amount of time and effort.

It’s no secret that automation has been improving productivity, accuracy and profits since the Industrial Revolution. Routine jobs and tasks once handled by the human brain and the skilled laborer are being replaced or eliminated with automation in some form. Add to that advances in technology, artificial intelligence and robotics, and many routine tasks once performed by humans have been replaced.

Yes, although new jobs […]

Since a lot of jobs are going to be automated what skills should

Some office automation equipment will foster jobs that require less skill than do manual operations, but many jobs found in an automated office require a higher were increased by automation and that this would help them obtain salary increases, even though only 30 percent of them had achieved such increases since 13 Jul 2017 Similarly, as automation reduces the need for administrative skills, other attributes will become more sought after in the workplace. 19th century, in which a group of English textile artisans protested the automation . "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund […]

Fighting The Future: Teamsters Demand UPS Ban Drones And Autonomous Vehicles

Fighting The Future: Teamsters Demand UPS Ban Drones And Autonomous Vehicles

from the giving-unions-a-bad-name dept

As I’ve occasionally mentioned in the past, my undergraduate studies were in (of all things) "industrial and labor relations," which involved many, many courses of study on the history of unions, collective bargaining and the economics around such things. I tend to have a fairly nuanced view of unionizing that I won’t get into here, other than to note that a big part of the reasons why unions get a bad name is when they take indefensible positions that they think will "protect" their members, but which actually are long term suicidal. This is one […]

Will automation reduce machinist jobs

The story revolves around a postapocalyptic Mar 10, 2011 CIM: How do you fight the stigma that all automation does is eliminate human workers? Lucier: The first thing to point out is that all industries are undergoing critical challenges with more and more machining work being sent overseas. India already has a high rate of unemployment, and further technology unemployment could only heighten Oct 10, 2017 Google, Uber, Tesla and the major truck manufacturers are looking to a future in which people like Baxter will be replaced – or at the very least downgraded to co-pilots – by automated […]

Minds and machines explore new territory together, says MIT research scientist

The cutting-edge technology of minds and machines is working together, says MIT expert

Abu Dhabi: The combination of mind and machine or human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future, an MIT scientist said on Wednesday.

Dr Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, told the majlis of His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, that when minds or human intelligence partner with machines or artificial intelligence (AI), we will have the most significant advancement to our capabilities.Despite the many human […]

The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

The Question with AI Isn’t Whether We’ll Lose Our Jobs — It’s How Much We’ll Get Paid

anucha sirivisansuwan/Getty Images The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. It is the continuous obligation of economic policy to match increases in productive potential with increases in purchasing power and demand. Otherwise the potential created by technical progress runs to waste in idle capacity, unemployment, and deprivation. — National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, Technology and the American Economy, Volume 1, February 1966, pg. 9.

The fear that machines will replace human labor is a durable one in the public mind, from the time of the Luddites in the early 19th century. Yet most economists […]

Kosmala to Chair PTI Conference

Kosmala to Chair PTI Conference

PTI is proud to announce Kris Kosmala, Vice President APAC with Quintiq, as the Master of Ceremonies for the upcoming Container Terminal Automation Conference.

Kosmala brings many years of extensive experience in the port, services and technology sectors, and presently works in Singapore with Quintiq, a software and development company specializing in the development and provision of advanced mathematical optimization software.

Having moderated several sessions at last year’s conference , Kosmala proved to be a highly popular and dynamic host and will moderate many sessions at the upcoming conference including, but not limited to, The Future of AI, the […]

Robots gain ground in ecommerce warehouses

Robots gain ground in ecommerce warehouses

For a vision of the future at the processing core of the logistics industry, take a look inside Ocado’s new warehouse near the southern English town of Andover.

Hundreds of cuboid units with a flashing light and antennas scuttle across a vast grid, accelerating and slowing down with a mechanical grace that prevents collisions.

Although the scene may resemble a secret industrial installation in a science fiction film, these robots are in fact carrying out a rather mundane task: picking out groceries. Ocado ’s state of the art facility is at the forefront of the technological changes taking place in the […]

Tech CEO says, “People are scared of tech because we’re telling them to be scared.” He has a point

There is a lot of truth in this Recode headline: “People are scared of tech because we’re telling them to be scared, says Stripe CEO Patrick Collison.” The boss of a $9.2 billion payment startup highlights the apparent disconnect between perception and reality, citing falling unemployment and rising labor-force participation, even among prime-age males. The silhouette of Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO at Stripe, is seen during a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Albert Gea Yet despite all those improving job starts, Americans are unsettled about where Silicon Valley is taking […]