Robots Want Your Bloody Job. How to Refine Human Skills to Leverage Your Future
If you ask an employer what he looks for in an employee, the answer would be something like?“faster, cheaper, and more productive.”
Robots have no flaws. They are limited to executing command orders.
If you were an employer, who would you assign the job to?
Some believe that automation will destroy the productive workforce. For the last decades, intensive specialized jobs have been switched to robots.
The second wave of automation and artificial intelligence will wipe out middle management jobs. Especially professionals in law and medicine.
The highest-paid professionals, who have so far benefited from technological disruption, will find resistance in the most advanced technologies.
Large databases, advanced algorithms, inexpensive sensors, and all kinds of robotics will converge to face middle management’s lucrative jobs. Any function that is predictable and routine will be a target for improving efficiency through automation.-?John Pugliano in The Robots are Coming: A Human’s Survival Guide to Profiting in the Age of Automation
In fact, AI, deep learning, microchips, and robotics will only tend to speed up the process. Its impact will be felt more quickly in the coming decades.
We cannot predict the future, but as unique human beings, we can anticipate and adapt to a new world. It will be tough, but also our salvation. We’re the ones who make the machines, and we do it for our benefit.
In fact, human characteristics are unique, and machines will never be able to reproduce emotions and feelings, like us.
Human attributes will make a powerful difference in the future.?Our attributes will be exclusive assets.
Machines will simply work to provide us with free time.
What about our job? Will robots take every job in the world?
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Work will be almost free.
It’s hard for us to accept it, but it’s going to be a reality. Much automation will bring bad news for workers but good news for consumers. Ironically, they are the same person.
Work almost free?it’s a complex concept to understand. The same way?information almost free?was challenging to believe 20 years ago, but it happened.
The most valuable information was only accessible in the great metropolises and in the university centers. Before the internet, you had to pay good money for info. Right now, you?google it.
Work almost free?will have the same trajectory. Robots will substitute human labor. Artificial intelligence, high-precision robotic, and deep learning will search for top payment jobs like doctors and lawyers.
Even China will have hard times soon. The country was a gigantic factory for 20 years. Yet, one entire factory with two thousand low-wage workers will be swift by robots and 3D printings.
On the other hand, the USA will enjoy abundant and cheap resources. Recent discoveries of low-cost natural gas will give Americans a unique opportunity to expand production and innovation. These resources will transform North America into a future gigantic low-cost production cluster. Through natural gas and robotics, the USA will increase its financial and geopolitical supremacy.
The deflationary power of technology will give more freedom and quality time to those who embrace it. It’s a radical paradigm shift, but it’s inevitable.
If everything- not just phones or Internet companies but?everything- is giving far more performance and at the same time falling in price, a family that makes $75,000 this year and struggles to make ends meet could make $70,000 next year, and the dollars would go further. And then, $60,000 a few years after that, and it would go further still, continuing to gain more for less with the natural deflationary trend in technology. That would allow us to step off the existing treadmill of chasing higher and higher prices, requiring ever-higher-paying jobs to keep up.
That may sound radical, but if the technology is deflationary, and we expect technology to continue its advance into more and more industries, it may not be radical at all.?It may be the only sane thing to do.-?Jeff Booth in The Price of Tomorrow.
If technology should be driving everything cheaper, why is life getting more expensive?
Technology is the foundation of the empowerment economy.
Everyone using a cell phone can have access to Blockchain technology. These tools will improve underdeveloped countries, helping them to find their true independence.
Technology and creativity are two powerful creations. Both will flip principles at times considered inviolable.
Disruptive technologies are eliminating the intermediaries.?It will change the concept of money and work.?Millennials and gen Z see money in the most creative way. They’ll be responsible for a new economy based on human behavior and happiness.
The global economy will shift to a completely different motto.?The world digitization will put the human soul in the center of everything.?And it will be the scarce asset of all.
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Personal attributes will be the game-changer of the future.?The new generations will be born under entirely different permisses.
Imagine your grandson or granddaughter born in an era where work is defined as helping other people? They’ll not need to build anything because the robots are here to do it for them. They just have to pick their brain and create.
According to?John Pugliano, there are four main attributes:
These will be the mainstream attributes of a highly technological society. Some industries will be dismantled, and others will be redesigned.
To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.
In the future, your uniqueness will not be a burden.?People will want to know your personal attributes. Those skills will be the absolute differentiator in your ability to bring value to the world.
Kindness
In a highly mechanical world, kindness will be one of the most valuable personal attributes. Human interaction will have a higher value. People will be often in the presence of robots most of the time. If you see a cell phone like a robot, at some point we’re already there. Yet, it will have a more significant impact in the future.
Robots will decrease dramatically the cost of everything, but in certain situations, you’ll prefer a kind person to be in front of you. And you’ll pay for that.
Competence
Data, cloud storage, and social networks will be intolerant to incompetence. Mechanical work will be exclusively executed by robots. But ultra-specific tasks will require total human delivery, concentration, and efficiency.
You already see this kind of phenomenon today. For example, if you need to choose between a taxi driver and a Uber, you’ll choose fast. You’ll select the system that informs you who’s the taxi driver. You’ll choose a clean, fast, and digitized service.
Communication
In the new era, being a?Tim Ferriss?is not enough. You must interlayer the incredible communication ability of Ferriss with the computing language. Those who will manage, for example, biological skills, are the future technicians of communication.
Artistic
This attribute will stand out, as we’ll live in a more sterile and mechanized world. Artistic expression will be the primary way to highlight our uniqueness. It will be challenging to live exclusively from art. Yet, evolving artistic skills with one main attribute will be powerful. Art mixed with mechanical skills or electronic knowledge could be a magical formula.
Bravery
In a highly efficient world, entrepreneurship will have more and more value in the market. Public jobs will be scarce, and your ability to build your own career will have more impact on your success. Society will create all the tools you need to be an easy ride.?However, a courageous attitude will be required.?Remember that the conditions will change quickly as technology evolves.
Final thought
We all create strong expectations regarding our personal and professional growth. We take courses, read inspiring articles, and listen to the most experienced experts.
However, no one prepares us for what has not yet been invented. Apart from Marty McFly and Doc Emmet Brown, no one has before predicted the future.
There are clues left from the most entrepreneurs and audacious ones.
Makes perfect sense to assume human attributes as the differentiator factor.
Self-improvement is not a static process. We have good clues on how to improve our kindness, competence, communication, artistic, and bravery skills.
Almost instinctively, after reading this article, you’ll try to improve them every single day.
In fact, super-efficient robots will need your unique attributes to perform all the tasks for which they were programmed.
Right there, you’ll have proof of your uniqueness.
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