HOW ARE WE GOING TO WORK IN THE FUTURE ?
It is very sure that every year professions or jobs are changing.New ones will continue to pop up and old ones tend to dissapear. Science and knowledge overcame to various heavy duties that our ancestors had in the past. Heating or cooling our homes became just a matter of a pushing over a button or adjusting the temperature over a switch . Commuting with comfortable public transportation systems against walking or riding hours at inconvenient ambiance either under burning sun or freezing cold.
Money must be consiered as accumulated energy. You work somewhere for 9 hours and you got some paperbill in exchange of the effort you spent, task you accomplished... And the with the bills in hand you can exchange with many things you need or want. This can be food that other prepared, garments , furniture, cars or electronic gadgets .Money replaced barter system to facilitate our life and facilitated the displacement of this energy.
Normally we burn 2000 to 3000 calories a day. Therefore to wage you get after working 9 hours must be equivalent to it. Otherwise you can not replenish the lost energy and start to loose weight until you die...
Basically you need to earn more as there will be days that you will be sick and will not be able to work but still you need to eat ,warm your house and medicines to be cured.
Even much more , to save some of it for the elderly life period while you will not be able to work but still need to satiate your hunger and warm your house. Even more if you want to have children. This may seem quite embarassing.
Imagine today with solar panels , wind mills you get energy at the cost of the machine itself and nothing more. Hence your endevour to work and being paid against the energy you spent is becoming obsolete nowadays.
Imagine that you are a skilled construction worker, once a huge 3D printer will be invented houses and buildings will be done by machine and you will not be employed any more. We see very clearly nowadays that most car factories have been filled with high-tech robots doing most the jobs that workers were doing in old times.
It is time to think about that what machines will not be able to do? There you will have the chance
to work and earn money.Engineers who were doing thousands of calculations with thousands of formulas learned at school, now became just a simple program in a computer doing the same job even better and much quicker. We know that such advanced programs are even deciding to buy or sell shares at stock exchange .
Artificial Intelligence or Learning Machines are today's topics. Autonomous cars and trucks will be seen very soon on the roads. With advanced control features they will reduce sharply accidents that are killing millions in whole world. Probably we wont need to own a car as transportation will be done Uber alike companies but without drivers. Removing from our life millions of cars that are staying dormant whole day waiting for just being used 1-2 hours maximum to commute.
High speed internet has brought the possibility to remote working, adding hours to our life while in the past we were spending hours to commute.
Huge data storage capacity has brought us elaborate more and get precise conclusions.
We will be working on areas that robots , high-tech machines and computer programs will not be able to accomplish. Writing a computer program , designing a better robot or a machine are just few examples that came into my mind. Technological farming will be profitable for a while...
Avram Aji
02.03.2019
