Henry Ford started to sell Americans the famous "Model T" almost a year ago. To tell the truth, the machines were in production since 1908, and only in 1909, Ford said leaders of his company: "Customers can have a car with what color they want, as long as it is black". But only in 1914, the black politics as the only option available was finally implemented. Since 1918, the Model T Ford cars accounted for half of automobiles sold in the US. Of course, they were all black. Ford's success is explicable with its innovative trend that took shape in particular with the creation of the chain assembly, originally conceived to replace human personnel and individual construction and automobile manual. All models Ford T were identical, it emphasized a strategy of "black policy of" advantages were low cost and reliability of vehicles.
The nature of work is not transformed dramatically. There was always the new technologies eleminonin ancient crafts, but creating others. When the transport industry abandoned wagons and horses to automobiles, artisans came however to transfer their skills to new technologies - built frames for vehicles. While Ford's assembly chains were quite another thing: the production of a vehicle was decomposed into a series of simple operations, conducted each worker not specialized and more frequently repeated.
At least, chain guard assembly jobs. What will happen in the future? Today we are going through a phase of profound transformations in all professional fields. Economists have been profoundly impressed by the fact that in the US, the number of new jobs that were opened in the US after the banking crisis of 2008 has been less than that of any other recovery phase in the history of mankind. Is responsible technological progress: Robots have made to employees in assembly chains to be excessive. Technological corporations like Google and Facebook are becoming protagonists of the economy, and a large part of what they produce and distribute consists only of data, do not need a large number of staff.
Naturally, the tendency will be emphasized more and more. The use of drones by the military aviation demonstrates that robots are increasingly able to perform tasks that once upon a time were human monopoly. It is not difficult to imagine the waste management services, or parking, which was entrusted to robots. In stores, automatic cash are replacing sales staff now. Thanks to driverless cars, which are in an advanced stage of development by Google and several other companies, will "disappear" the drivers.
Of course, we should not have a mentality close: the labor force in poorer countries, still forced to live in primitive conditions, there is of course the same concerns that we have about the rivalry with robots and a surplus of leisure . But when economic growth will result enough everywhere may find all faced with a challenge: a not preparing for a future in which the only task that can carry human beings will be those of a high-profile intellectual? Do not be other than the design of software that will control the legions of robots?
It is possible, but there is also a hypothetical scenario. Eliminating the risk of recurrence and professions such as mineral extraction or housework would undoubtedly good news. And of course, there will always be a need for people able to provide medical care, or care for children. If so, why not celebrate the availability of so many new-found free time? People can choose to give more job satisfaction and are more personalized, for example by opening microfactories craft beer. Assistance in the end in a reversal of the tendency of the pioneering ideas of Ford, who wanted to reduce people, regardless of their exceptional expertise in robots.
Man has begun to work in order so given only after comprehensive invention of agriculture, approximately 10 thousand years ago. Perhaps robots will rediscover the rich cultural life of our ancestors, much less afflicted by stress.
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