Let us look again at the UK report on automation of jobs. It indicates that 47% of jobs are in danger of being automated within 1 to 2 decades. The report that looked at 702 different occupations and ranked them based on how likely they are to be automatable based on advances in machine learning, machine vision and robotics. The report only predicts that probability that a job could, eventually, be automated, not that it will be automated.
Technoccult points out that it doesn’t address other supply and demand issues. For example, there are more law school graduates now than ever, so although most legal work can’t be automated, it doesn’t make law a “safe” profession. It also doesn’t address the effects of some portion of work becoming automated, thus reducing the number of people needed. To use law as an example again, software tools make the discovery process easier, reducing the number of lawyers and paralegals required to do that task. In journalism, some types of reporting have already been successfully automated.
Business models, rapid growth of disruptive companies combined with technology make are creating waves of disruption.
* Redbox and Netflix and Youtube disrupted or are disrupting Blockbuster and traditional media
* The internet and highspeed broadband disrupting traditional media
* Quickbooks and Turbotax disrupting traditional bookkeeping
* legalzoom disrupting law profession
* Also continual business outsourcing combined with domestic companies and automation to take work to India and the Philippines and other places
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Technoccult points out that it doesn’t address other supply and demand issues. For example, there are more law school graduates now than ever, so although most legal work can’t be automated, it doesn’t make law a “safe” profession. It also doesn’t address the effects of some portion of work becoming automated, thus reducing the number of people needed. To use law as an example again, software tools make the discovery process easier, reducing the number of lawyers and paralegals required to do that task. In journalism, some types of reporting have already been successfully automated.
Business models, rapid growth of disruptive companies combined with technology make are creating waves of disruption.
* Redbox and Netflix and Youtube disrupted or are disrupting Blockbuster and traditional media
* The internet and highspeed broadband disrupting traditional media
* Quickbooks and Turbotax disrupting traditional bookkeeping
* legalzoom disrupting law profession
* Also continual business outsourcing combined with domestic companies and automation to take work to India and the Philippines and other places
Read more »
