Tag: Technology

OECD report dials down job risk from automation – but it’s still daunting

OECD report dials down job risk from automation – but it’s still daunting

Amazon’s robots have revolutionized warehouse operations. (Amazon / Kiva Systems Photo) A working paper written for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that about 14 percent of the jobs in 32 OECD countries, including the U.S., are at high risk of being automated.

That raw figure may not sound as dire as some of the previous numbers cited for the effect of automation and artificial intelligence on employment, and that’s what’s been grabbing the headlines over the past couple of days. But a close reading of the report, published last month, shouldn’t lead anyone to brush off the […]

Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment

47 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last revised: 28 Mar 2018 Abstract

Do industries shed jobs when they adopt new labor-saving technologies? Sometimes productivity-enhancing technology increases industry employment instead. In manufacturing, jobs grew along with productivity for a century or more; only later did productivity gains bring declining employment. What changed? Markets became saturated. While the literature on structural change provides reasons for the decline in the manufacturing share of employment, few papers can explain both the rise and subsequent fall. Using two centuries of data, a simple model of demand accurately explains the rise and fall of employment […]

The future of society, not just that of work, is threatened by tech disruption

Conversations are finally beginning about the impact of automation on jobs, but we need to address the huge change coming to the fabric of our society. Shutterstock.com by Dean Dorrell

Mike Cannon-Brookes was right to draw attention to the disruption coming to workers from technology and the need to transition them to be valuable in future.

I would go further though – the very fabric of our society is at risk as the current wave of technology impacts us at a pace we could never have imagined – we need to rapidly address the structural issues in our country.To understand what […]

Trends in Enterprise Productivity with Digital

Trends in Enterprise Productivity with Digital

Technologies such as Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Information Management are driving significant productivity increases.

Photo Credit : whichvoip.co.za, “The biggest impediment to a company’s future success is its past success.” – Dan Schulman | CEO of PayPal

“In today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.” Jeff Bezos | Amazon founderTechnologies such as Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Information Management are driving […]

Employment is not in jeopardy; Your salary Yes

Employment is not in jeopardy; Your salary Yes

More information The age of algorithm has arrived and your data is a treasure

The precarious ones of new digital economy

The work mutation Are robots, supercomputers and algorithms going to finish with work? Are we about to enter a post-industrial world where employment will be a rare warning that only a privileged group will have access to? These questions are increasingly common in view of technological revolution that threatens to replace people by machines. But, contrary to widespread notion that age of employment is coming to an end, a recent study concludes that automation does not reduce number […]

Edward Cone: Failing the future: It’s past time to get serious about robots

Edward Cone: Failing the future: It’s past time to get serious about robots

Ford cars are assembled in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. W e live in an age of wonders, many of them painstakingly engineered to steal our jobs. Machines have always replaced human labor — that’s why we build them, and they deliver on their purpose efficiently, remorselessly and, in the long run, to the greater economic good of society. But this is about to happen in some unprecedented ways, and it’s going to leave a mark.

An emerging generation of computers that can learn, see and talk on the phone promises — or threatens — to automate tasks […]

The challenges of the future

Predicting the future has never been a particularly easy thing to do. History is littered with the ignominious pronouncements of experts who spoke too soon on issues ranging from technology to politics and if there is one thing that is certain, it is that change can come from unexpected directions. The speculative fantasists of the early 20th century, for example, envisaged a future in which humans had settled across the solar system, but failed to anticipate the emergence of technologies like the internet that are now taken for granted. Much more recently, almost no one imagined that Donald Trump […]

Resistance isn’t futile! 6 tips for keeping your job amid the robot takeover

Resistance isn’t futile! 6 tips for keeping your job amid the robot takeover

Whatever you do at your job, chances are that you’ve considered the possibility that you could one day lose your livelihood to a robot . Until a system like universal basic income comes into play (and arguably even then!), the risk of A.I. stealing our employment is the existential threat of our age. But things don’t have to look so dismal.

As Terminator protagonist Sarah Connor once told us, we can make our own future. At the very least, we can configure it to our advantage. What tips can we pass on to ensure that you don’t find yourself downsized […]

Andrew Yang Wants You To Vote For A $1,000-A-Month Basic Income In 2020

Andrew Yang Wants You To Vote For A $1,000-A-Month Basic Income In 2020

Andrew Yang has a one word answer for why he’s running for president in 2020. It’s not Trump, or healthcare, or fame. It’s automation: the way in which machines are taking away jobs already and are set to take away many more in the future. “To me, this is an elephant in the room that’s stomping around and making a mess and everyone seems to be ignoring it,” he says.

Yang, a New York entrepreneur, sees machines taking away employment from retail store assistants, truck drivers, and call center workers–some of the most numerous job categories in the country–and before […]

Andrew Yang Wants You To Vote For A $1,000-A-Month Basic Income In 2020

Andrew Yang Wants You To Vote For A $1,000-A-Month Basic Income In 2020

Andrew Yang has a one word answer for why he’s running for president in 2020. It’s not Trump, or healthcare, or fame. It’s automation: the way in which machines are taking away jobs already and are set to take away many more in the future. “To me, this is an elephant in the room that’s stomping around and making a mess and everyone seems to be ignoring it,” he says.

Yang, a New York entrepreneur, sees machines taking away employment from retail store assistants, truck drivers, and call center workers–some of the most numerous job categories in the country–and before […]