TWO BILLION JOBS TO DISAPPEAR BY 2030

Significant and fast-paced change will be occurring across society in general. The clearer our sense for the future is, the more able we are both to understand and to take advantage of trends working their way through virtually every aspect of our lives today.

1) AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATION GOING DRIVERLESS

For the next 10 years the first wave of autonomous vehicleswill be entering the roads with some of them delivering packages, groceries, and fast-mail envelopes. Driverless technology will initially require a driver, but it will quickly creep into everyday use much as airbags did. First as an expensive option for luxury cars, but eventually it will become a safety feature stipulated by the government.

The greatest benefits of this kind of automation won’t be realised until the driver’s hands are off the wheel. With over 2 million people involved in car accidents every year in the USA, it won’t take long for legislators to be convinced that driverless cars are substantially safer and more effective option.

What related jobs will have gone away by 2030?

What jobs will have appeared by 2030?

2) EDUCATION

The Open Course Movement took hold in 2001 when MIT started recording all their courses and making them available for free online. They currently have over 2,080 courses available that have been downloaded 131 million times. Now, the Internet offers over 500,000 courses from 1,000 universities that have been downloaded 700 million times. All these courses are free for anyone to take. Courses are becoming a commodity. Teachers will only need to teach once, record it, and then move on to another topic or something else. Teaching requires experts. Learning only requires coaches. With all of the assets in place, we will be moving quickly into the new frontier of a teacherless education system.

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3) BOTS

Nearly every physical task will conceivably be done by a robot at some point in the future. As a result, bots will be gradually replacing humans in fishing, mining, farming, building. Warrior drones will replace soldiers.

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4) FINAL THOUGHT

Certainly, there is a downside to all this. The more technology we rely on, the more breaking points we will have in our lives. Driverless drones can deliver people. These people can deliver bombs or illicit drugs as easily as pizza. Robots that can build a building can also destroy it.

All this technology can make us fat, and lazy; thus we won’t be solving the problems but aggravating them. We are not well equipped culturally and emotionally to have this much technology entering into our lives. There will be backlashes, ‘destroy the robots, or ‘damn driverless cars campaigns with proposal legislation attempting to limit its influence. At the same time, most of the jobs getting displaced are low-level, low-skilled labor positions. Our challenge will be to upgrade our workforce to match the labor demand of the coming era. Although it won’t be an easy road ahead it will be one filled with amazing technology and huge potentials as the industries shift.