Posted on 11/07/2014 4:44:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A paradigm shift is expected to be witnessed in the way workplaces operate over the next 15 years, making nearly 50 per cent of occupations existing today redundant by 2025, a report has said.
Artificial intelligence will transform businesses and the work that people do. Process work, customer work and vast swathes of middle management will simply disappear, it said.
The report titled 'Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace' has been prepared by realty consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, a property developer, after interviewing 220 experts, business leaders and young people from Asia, Europe and North America.
"Nearly 50 per cent of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025. New jobs will require creative intelligence, social and emotional intelligence and ability to leverage artificial intelligence. Those jobs will be immensely more fulfilling than today's jobs," the report said.
Workspaces with row of desks will become completely redundant, not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists, it said.
"The next 15 years will see a revolution in how we work, and a corresponding revolution will necessarily take place on how we plan and think about workplaces.
"The dramatic changes in how people work that we have seen in the past two decades will continue to evolve over the next 15 years, opening up new opportunities for companies to create value and enhance employee performance through innovative workplace strategies and designs," CBRE South Asia Chairman and Managing Director Anshuman Magazine said...
(Excerpt) Read more at business-standard.com ...
I'm acquainted with a few who believe it no longer exists now, we're just being strung along, placated and slowly acclimated. To them, that's why the "border" is not being enforced, it's no longer there except as a fiction to prevent native unrest. It's also why so many Presidential contenders of late have been dicey as far as eligibility under the natural born citizen requirement. That would have to go in a post-national world.
I’d always heard that anecdote attributed to Milton Friedman, but apparently it has deeper and less clear roots than that:
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
Interesting, thanks!
Great advice.
Welfare queen is a term that will have outlived it’s time with the onset of robots doing the work of man. They will tax those who earn to provide for those who are not able to get the few technical positions in the robot industry.
It’s going to be a mess.
Apparently, your glass is half empty — and leaking.
Wow, that’s quite an industrial strength carpet cleaner rig, complete with a sleeper cab.
Nano technology and other innovations will soon enable most dental cleaning to easily be done at home.
And meanwhile, the country has an oversupply of trained dental hygienists, many of whom went to school to become dental hygienists because their prior jobs were eliminated by technology or offshoring enabled by technology.
TripAdvisor is my Concierge.
The Cotton Gin had more to do with ending slavery than the Civil War.
Another one who just doesn't get it.
How much money do you expect a lawyer make off a client who is indigent because technology eliminated the client's career?
Basically like a hospitality center. Provide information on stuff at the airport and in the city.
Another one who doesn’t see what’s coming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc
That’s just one example, and just the very beginning.
Even those whose careers might be the last to be eliminated, will find themselves in competition with refugees from obsolete careers, who went to school to qualify for the dwindling list of remaining careers.
And even then, how will those with careers that are the last to go, get paid when most people work as greeters or are on relief?
For example, trial attorneys might hold on for a while, but technology will likely greatly reduce the need for attorneys with such things as 24/7 monitoring of everyone’s action and/or by fool-proof lie detectors that use brain scans.
Good advice. That way, you can be a bishop and make a fortune in private equity, too!
It's not like it will be a choice, but an inevitable outcome should technology development continue unabated, and so long as the power needed for such technology be available.
I just found this thing: Introducing Amazon Echo
Doubtless its capabilities are likely less extensive than this video might lead one to believe, but this is only the beginning. Just a few years ago, how many would have thought this thing would be here in 2014, and for about $200?
As I watch the actors I cannot help but be appalled by the stupidity of their admiration for this thing, and how they will soon be on the unemployment line as this thing becomes more powerful.
A person at a luxury hotel who helps guests arrange activities outside the hotel, such as restaurant reservations, theaters and night clubs, tours and special events, limos, etc.
Recently, the word has made its way into medicine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierge_medicine.
I know a McDonalds order-takee will look a lot more like a computer
That’s just Apple’s Siri with a different form factor. Yes, it will reduce the need for people to look things up, or whatever else it does — but, that doesn’t mean that people won’t find other ways to make a useful contribution.
Granted, it’s likely that we’ll have lots of people who have no useful skills, or who are content with living off whatever wealth is distributed by their benevolent robot overlords. These people will likely take drugs, join in riots, vote Democrat, and otherwise be wastes of skin and oxygen. IOW, pretty much how things are now.
The first to go will be dental hygienists, the demise of which profession is already showing up on endangered profession lists.
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Why dental hygienists? I don’t see robots filling that role.
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