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I have been interested in the topic of job automation for over a decade ever since undertaking work activities without the aid of modern technology while traveling and working in various organisations in South America.
Currently, I work for a small but growing specialised consultancy where I develop and manage collaborative European Technology projects. The projects focus on improving Industry 4.0 technologies or on supporting small and medium enterprises uptake emerging tech. The social impact of their adoption is also considered in every project.
Originally from Vancouver Canada, I now live in Barcelona, and when not looking into automation or working on this podcast, I spend my time bouldering, practicing acro yoga, trekking, and scuba diving.
Technological Unemployment is set to be one of the 21st century’s biggest and most profound trends due to the emergence and maturing of technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, etc.
These technologies and others have the possibility of doing tasks and activities traditionally done by humans, but faster, more efficiently, cheaper, for longer durations, and with less downtime. What does this mean for the individual that lives in a modern society where the principle survival mechanism is to trade time and skills for income? What happens on a larger social or economic scale?
This socio-economic issue will continually impact individuals as the current technologies are improved and applied while new technologies emerge. A continuous conversation needs to be had focusing on this central issue if we hope to benefit from the coming wave of automation, instead of being drowned by it.
“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being’s worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world…” Jeremy Rifkin – (Zero Marginal Cost Society)