RE: Ethical Dilemmas We’ll Soon Face Thanks To Science And Technology
As to what we will do, people have been predicting the end of labour for quite some tume. The spinning jenny put thousands of textile labourers out of work. The adventvof rhe steamship destroyed the entire sailmakung industry and put many sailors out of work. At the beginning of the 20th centurÿ, agriculture wascstill an important employer...
The future will see us working just as we are working now, despite the need to have a quarter of the population farming.
There might be a gradual reduction of the hours worked, and there will definitely be a shift in the kind of work we perform (i predict a rise in jobs which require emotional contact, and physical services (not meanibg prostitution, but things like beauty consultants, personal service providers etc...)
Yes, it has been happening throughout the history but it will happen at a faster rate now and will cover a lot more jobs than before. In the coming years the whole job structure will change and there will be new jobs while old ones get obsolete. Only time will tell how it will be like.
Indeed,
But I am optimistic about the outcome, something which appears to be rare since pessimism about this aspect is omnipresent (though your piece gave a nice neutral point of view, without the doom and gloom I am used to reading with regards to that aspect.)
I like to be positive too. Somehow, I have this feeling that we will make it. We always have :)
It is quite hard to fathom truly how many jobs will be lost due to improvements in AI, 3d-printing,robotics and automation. So many will be surprised. Those under 20 will probably get to see a world where most services will have been taken over.