Tag: Technical

Lifelong learning is the future of work

Lifelong learning is the future of work

As working environments around the world become overwhelmed by technology, a lifelong learning mindset is imperative to close skills gaps that emerge as work evolves. In the year 2030, you may be working in a job that doesn’t even exist yet. We’re not talking about flying cars or developing the world’s first time machine. The requirements, levels and styles of all kinds of work are evolving very fast, which means you need to understand how you can prepare for future roles that may emerge.

There’s no guaranteed way to tell exactly what skills will be needed in the future, and […]

Will humanoid robots really steal our jobs?

Will humanoid robots really steal our jobs?

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is sounding the alarm: The robots are coming for your job.

"Technology is now automating away millions of American jobs. It’s why Donald Trump is our president today," Yang said at the first Democratic primary debate in June. "We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. And we’re about to do the same thing to millions of retail jobs, call center jobs, fast food jobs, truck driving jobs." Scary words. But to others, robots represent something else — freedom from drudgery. In Japan, robots aren’t scary. In fact, interacting with […]

Gen Z Know Automation Will Take Their Jobs

Gen Z Know Automation Will Take Their Jobs

Photo by Boxed Water Is Better on Unsplash Gen Z have their eyes on the prize, a world working with AI.

Gen Z, the generation that comes after Millennials, are graduating college and entering the workforce.

Growing up as digital natives, they know machine intelligence will scale in their generation as workers in the labor force. Those headlines about “robots” coming for our jobs? Well, Gen Z have an inkling. They are actually going to live it.The eldest of Gen Z are only about 24 now, in 2019 and the majority of them are still students. Gen Z is right […]

The Question of the Century: Will Automation Take Over Our Jobs?

The Question of the Century: Will Automation Take Over Our Jobs?

Share Tweet Share Share Artificial Intelligence robot replaces in the work of man. Turnover workers. Vector illustration flat design. Isolated on white background. Technologies replace people. Robotics industry. We’ve all heard that automation will take over our jobs, but that’s not entirely true. Many of the great inventions of the last two hundred years were designed to eliminate human labor.

Although machines took over human occupations, the fraction of US adults employed in the labor market is higher now than in the 1890s. For example — the automation in the food industry is huge, but why are there still chefs?

Well, […]

Celebrating labor

Celebrating labor

Labor Day was established as a national holiday 125 years ago, championed by labor unions. Despite unions’ recent decline, we should still celebrate work. The market for labor is an important element of the liberal society, and peoples’ willingness to work for a living makes our economy function.

The decline of unions in America has been remarkable. Over 30% of workers were unionized in the 1950s, versus 10% in 2018. The private sector unionization rate is only 6.4% – about one out of 16 workers. A number of factors explain this change, like the decline in manufacturing employment; America still […]

Banks seek more investments in FinTech, human capital

Banks seek more investments in FinTech, human capital

Commercial banks have been advised to make more investments in financial technology (FinTech) and the relevant specialised human capital for the growth of the financial system.

Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), President, Uche Olowu who gave the advice at the institute’s investiture in Lagos, said investment in specialised human capital is, particularly, significant given the domination of technological solutions, which are taking over human jobs.

According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, 60 per cent of all occupations have at least 30 per cent of activities that are technically automated. Furthermore, the report states that roughly one-fifth […]

Big Story: In the Quad-Cities, the future of work has arrived. Are you ready?

Big Story: In the Quad-Cities, the future of work has arrived. Are you ready?

Brice Wagner, of Davenport, plays a game wearing a pair of VR goggles during class at the AVR Academy, an augmented and virtual reality lab. (Monday, August 26, 2019, at Scott Community College in Davenport) Stephon Morgan, of Davenport, plays a game wearing a pair of VR goggles during class at the AVR Academy, an augmented and virtual reality lab. (Monday, August 26, 2019, at Scott Community College in Davenport) In a windowless room in the heart of downtown Davenport, Robert Gillespie sees the future.

Strapped around his face is a virtual reality headset, a sort of crystal ball that […]

Can eLearning Help Us In The Automation Race?

Can eLearning Help Us In The Automation Race?

Don’t want to fall behind AI and robots? Develop new skills, never stop learning and be prepared for constant change. How Learning Online Helps Us In The Automation Race

If you search “will robots take my job” in your browser, you will find a website that lists the automation risk level for each occupation within two decades. This simple website is based on Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne’s research. In the report, The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization?, they examined over 700 occupations in the US using a Gaussian process classifier to estimate the […]

How I learned to stop worrying and love automation

How I learned to stop worrying and love automation

PHOTO © ZAPP2PHOTO | ADOBE STOCK U.S. manufacturing seemingly isn’t in a good position. According to data published by The U.S. Federal Reserve, factory production slumped through most of 2019’s first half, recovering slightly in May and June. Reports by the Institute for Supply Management echoed a similar sentiment, stating that U.S. factories had declined in multiple areas, including employment, orders, production, and deliveries.

The prevailing narrative of the media is that nothing can stop the ongoing decline of manufacturing. However, the industry’s savior may lie in one of its supposed antagonists – automation .

America has an unusual relationship with […]

How to Choose a Job That Won’t Be Replaced By Robots

How to Choose a Job That Won't Be Replaced By Robots

Indypendenz/Shutterstock Both blue- and white-collar routine jobs are at risk of displacement by robots, while nonroutine, abstract occupations are more difficult to automate – for now.

Jobs involving creativity and emotional intelligence are the least likely to be replaced by automation.

Lifelong re-education may be the surest way to professional survival. If the idea of a C-3PO-like robot occupying your current job, whether that’s teaching a class of kindergarteners or auditing taxes, sounds far-fetched 10 years from now, you’re not wrong. However, experts caution that 25% of U.S. jobs are at "high risk" of automation (with another 36% at […]