The second revolution of technology

As the technology grows, people become more and more dependent on it. In the past, we might think that the technology will one day have consciousness and take on a wave of revenge. However, that everyone day may have arrived silently but with a scarier way. They are after our jobs.

From the basic muscle jobs to higher level cognitive level jobs such as doctors. For example an artificial intelligent name Watson. It can obliterate human in term of knowledge, seen on a game show. It is able to understand human nature language. And because technology can be made and remade, more and more can be produced. Meaning that in the future, you might have a version of Watson in the house yourself! Have it to do things, manage things for you. Sound good isn't it?

Not so fast, what about the jobs that we once depended on? They are slowing being taken over by exponentially growing computers. Then when we relies on it so much, it seems that we are their biological robot now. Like the airline trials Google Glass check-in. The man is not deciding anymore, the computer or the main server is. He is just there to “help” the operation. In the near future, we will have a humanoid robot replacing many jobs such as cashier, assistant, maids. Technology might one day replace our pets! Robot pets!

Our jobs are slowing being consumed by technology, and it doesn’t seems to have much new jobs now. What should we do about people that depend on muscle jobs? In the far future, many not be far, doctor may be replaced! We need to think about that and cope with it. Maybe learning how to code will allow us to have job controlling the robots again, instead of it control us.

Major Concepts

• Privacy concerns, job concerns, future concerns
• Our right as a human are being replaced
• Who is being control by it, digital divide.

Potential Advantages

• Many example such as google glass, the cow milker

Potential Disadvantages

• Did not state how to deal with the problem

Discussion Questions

• Who is controlling who?
• If our jobs are becoming less and less, what should we do about those jobless people?

Citation

• Grossman, David. "Will robots put us all out of work?." BBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. <http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27125728>.
• "Airline trials Google Glass check-in." BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2014. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xz1br>.

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