The working place of tomorrow: how far should the development of technology go?
Technology is a key component of most people’s work nowadays. Even the most unpretentious jobs like factory workers, post deliverers, or taxi drivers need to develop some amount of computer skills. But isn’t there still too much reliance on technology in solving problems that might arise at the working place? Doesn’t technology have a potential to dehumanize people? Hasn’t the speed of technological progress exceed the needs of societies? It is mistaken assuming that technology exists absent of people for whom it is designed to use. Every technological fit needs to be correspondingly accompanied by an alteration or improvement in how humans will use the technology. As the former secretary of labor in Clinton administration has said: ‘There is no such thing as a technological fix without personal input.’ In the lines to come, I will follow this exposition presenting a futuristic idea of an absolute self-sufficiency of human-made robots and whether there should be a place for them in the society nowadays and/or in the future. (weiterlesen…)