Rise of Robots: Trade new for old work
With the development of robots, more and more jobs are replaced by the robots, this caused many people panic if in the future job opportunities will be reduced and less? The number of unemployed will be increased and more because of the popularity of robots?
Famous writer Martin Ford also expressed his worry about the influence of human. In his new book “Rise of Robots” which published in 2015 points out that driverless cars and 3D printing, many of the new technology will eventually take human jobs, then how can we adapt to “out of work future”?
The MIT Computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory people changed their lab into a small bar, let the three robots as a bartender and two waiters. Waiters can go to the different office to request an order from researchers, after that they return to the bar, transfer the orders to the bartender robot. In the end, they will send the drinks to the researcher after the bartender finish generates drinks.
From order to production. From production to distribution. Robots do all the work in this bar, but in this progress humans equally important. Tell the robots how to make drinks.
Robots currently can not replace personal taste, and the human’s sense of taste is to rely on taste buds, ordinary people have more than 10000 taste buds, which can perceive 500 different taste.
It is impossible the robot can do work well qualified to human beings, for now, robots need the human to tell how much is it for each wine components respectively, it can only take to produce, rather than control like a human.
If we treat communication technology as a robot, definitely the robot was grabbed most of the mail carrier’s work. People no longer write to their friends; no longer reading the newspapers by mail way; no longer reading the paper letters.
There are some harmful effects applied to the mail carrier, but more benefits received to human beings.
The first benefit is the communication costs down, as long as people in place, covered by wireless phone signals, people can call the communication to others at any time. In the past, write a letter to others, the receivers need to wait for a long time to see the content of the letter.
The second benefit is a new technology will create the new employment opportunity. Because of the complexity, communication technology is divided into many industries.
Including but not limited to the mobile phone manufacturers, the smartphone design enterprises, as well as the network of the phone vendors, and the network equipment producers, and a variety of software industry.
These new industries can provide many jobs than traditional communications industry, it is an excellent example, shows that technology can bring a positive influence to human improvement.
Overall, while it is true that a robot replaces some old job, but relatively also has given rise to some new jobs, and these new jobs for the current technical bottlenecks, or people themselves considerations, only human being can do.
The rise of robots in the world perhaps is traded new to old work. It is unnecessary to worry about it.