Many visions of the future are based on the assumption that the technological development that accompanies us is beneficial to humanity. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of opinions that also point to threats. Today I will try to describe both of these points of view. 

If it is supposed to be so good, 

Perhaps it’s because those who analyze technology trends and know the historical context know that if something can go wrong . Tt will. This is a well-known problem, and it’s called Murphy’s Law.

For example: Jack Ma . The richest man in singapore telegram data  China, the founder of Alibaba, said something in an interview with Business Insider that caught my attention: 

“ The world will see far more pain than happiness in the next 30 years . The social conflicts of the next three decades will affect every industry and lifestyle.”

According to Jack Ma, the world will be full of “pain” because the Internet – including e-commerce – is rapidly changing the way the world works. China’s richest man predicts that the Internet and automation will cause an “explosion in the economy.” 

Isn’t it a paradox that a man who made a huge fortune in online trading warns us about the development of digital technology?

Perhaps Ma’s honesty and openness stems from the fact that he is already so “big” that he can reveal more than just what the officially polished PR statements say? Perhaps his position is no longer threatened and he can say more.

Disruptive innovation

In my opinion . The changes that Ma talks about and which I quote have a dangerous face, such as the risk of professional exclusion of entire social groups and the concentration of capital in the hands of a narrow group of people who own assets in the form of software and robots.

It is possible that a new version of capitalism sam falbo hr project manager/recruiter will emerge in which the source of wealth will be  doug dyer lab. manager  manager ownership of software and the ability to use digital technologies, including the doug dyer lab. manager   to influence markets (production . Trade . Service . Cybersecurity, military technologies).

There is a fear that this state of affairs will unfortunately not be balanced by an increase in jobs. New technologies will greatly improve many areas of our lives, but at the same time they will have a disruptive impact on those sectors of the economy that for some reason have not moved from the analog to the digital era (they did not have time, they did not know how).

According to forecast . Up to 40% of currently performed professions in Poland are threatened by automation. The list of the most threatened professions is headed by salesperson and telemarketer.

why are there so many negative forecasts?

As a consolation . I will add that it is predicted that the wave of digitization, automation and robotization will reach us with a delay, slower than in more developed countries.

Unfortunately, however . Rt may have more serious consequences, due to the fact that  a large part of our economy is based on simple work that is easily automated, for example in service centres such as call centres, which will inevitably be the first to be automated.

There will also be a new list of risks that  jpb directory  we will have to learn to live with again (e.g. loss of assets in the form of collected data as a result of an attack by cybercriminals, viruses, interception of social media profiles, hacking into servers, takeover of websites, loss of reputation as a result of a leak of sensitive data, etc.).

In my marketing world, cases of takeovers of communities gathered in thematic groups, sending viruses from the profiles of unaware owners to their contact lists, etc., are becoming more and more common.

You shouldn’t be afraid of the future. You should be afraid of being unprepared when it arrives. 

The purpose of my article is not to sow defeatist thoughts, nor to call for a return to economy 1.0. I treat this text polemically and I hope you perceive it that way too. What the future will look like, only God knows. It may happen that all the problems we are trying to solve today will become obsolete due to the occurrence of some natural cataclysm (Climate Change).

Nevertheless, I am intrigued by how the great minds of this world warn us against overoptimism related to the development o . Ror example, artificial intelligence.

One of such people is Elon Musk, who very seriously warns us against the development of AI, due to the very probable scenario of losing control over it in the course of further work.

Interestingly, there have also been ideas to create a religion in which the center of worship would be AI, which would be able to write its own bible in the next 50-100 years.

“Recently[…] engineer who once worked at Uber has started a new religion. Anthony Levandowski    Its mission: “To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society.”

The first humanoid robot with citizen status

Recently . Tews went around the world that Saudi Arabia had granted citizenship to the first humanoid machine named Sofia.

During the “interview” the host asked whether machines should have artificial intelligence and whether they should have self-awareness. Sofia answered:

“Why should that be a problem?”

Of course I understand that the question was defined before the conference and that the answer was specifically designed to provoke discussion. The question is . Tf such a dilemma really arises in the future, will anyone be able to resist the temptation?

Robot Sofia will appear at the conference as a “speaker” alongside Seth Godin and Daniel Golleman “BrandMinds 2018”

Imagine an intelligent machine that is self-aware (at least to the point where we can’t identify it), never gets tired, always has 100% of our attention, and will do the most tedious or any work for us. We won’t buy one? I don’t know if we’ll be able to afford it, but for sure, the iPhone craze would be nothing compared to the craze that a real smart and feeling machine could cause.

Who will benefit from the technological revolution?

“In the digital world of the future, the people who will do best will be those who know what conclusions to draw from data analysis, how to talk to the customer and how to make money from all this. Effective use of data is the most important challenge today. Combining these skills with business and strategic abilities will be key” – Prof. Renata Włoch.

According to data from the European Commission, by 2020, approximately one million jobs will be created in the EU for people with such competences.

The professions that will survive despite the development of technology. These are those  based on creativity and empathy. Social intelligence, the ability to ask questions and draw conclusions from them, taking exceptions into account, deeper contact with people. The open question is how many of us will have such competences.

In the past, they also complained about technology taking away jobs, but the world did not collapse

Of course, many of you will think that it was like that in the past. When a new technology appeared (e.g. steam engines), people also protested and predicted the end of the world, but the opposite happened. Economies that implemented technological innovations experienced a boom.

Personally, I hope that this will be the case now. However, thinking about all this, I have a lot of questions in my head to which I do not have an optimistic answer, for example:

• • Is it really possible for someone who has never had much to do with technology to find their place in the technological economy?
  • Will entrepreneurs have time to build their new digital enterprises before other giants do so with their vast resources?
  • Will the education system prepare the next generations for a labor market that will be based mainly on technology?