Imagine a future state where we are using bots more than people. Where, as Stephen Hawking predicted, we pay people NOT to work.
How will people interact with one another – either at work if it still exists for them, or in society?
Now think about today. With an ever growing desire to lower margins and automate, it’s the industrial revolution all over again. This time I’d like to call it the Techno-Revolution. So much hype is being made over robotics, like hand held devices, simplifying our lives. I love my iPhone and Fitbit (well not so much my Fitbit yet) as much as the next person. But Siri still sucks.
Yes I imagine a world when I can just ask Siri or Echo to play music I want to hear. But that dream only matters for a second because it’s all about making me, my, myself, me me me, my life easier, more efficient, maybe cost effective. Get the picture?
So if we continue to focus on robotics, on AI, on VR, then I have good news for those of us in the business of humanity.
We’ll have a competitive edge and there will be a large need in society and in the workplace for bringing us back to human basics. Because we’ll forget how to be human.
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