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alexbelov

People Are Still Getting This The Robots Will Steal All Our Jobs Thing Wrong - Forbes - 0 views

  • the new technology kills off the old jobs and that allows people to go and do something different
  • We’ve not got to make sure that the new technologies create jobs. Because that’s not what they do. Rather, they free labour to go do something else.
  • It simply isn’t true that the new technologies create jobs. That’s not what leads to us all still having jobs at least. What does happen is that we all go find other things to do. And it’s a basic tenet of economics that human desires and wants are unlimited while the resources we have to sate them are limited and scarce.
Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
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    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
Maria Gurova

The Personal Blog of Zack Kanter - How Uber's Autonomous Cars Will Destroy 10 Million J... - 1 views

  • . Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030
  • They will cause unprecedented job loss and a fundamental restructuring of our economy, solve large portions of our environmental problems, prevent tens of thousands of deaths per year, save millions of hours with increased productivity, and create entire new industries that we cannot even imagine from our current vantage point.
  • Morgan Stanley’s research shows that cars are driven just 4% of the time,5 which is an astonishing waste considering that the average cost of car ownership is nearly $9,000 per year.6
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  • The car purchasers of the future will not be you and me – cars will be purchased and operated by ride sharing and car sharing companies.
  • , it is unlikely that major automakers like General Motors, Ford, and Toyota will survive the leap.
  • while startup automakers like Tesla will thrive on a smaller number of fleet sales to operators like Uber by offering standardized models with fewer options.
  • 884,000 people are employed in motor vehicles and parts manufacturing, and an additional 3.02 million in the dealer and maintenance network.22 Truck, bus, delivery, and taxi drivers account for nearly 6 million professional driving jobs. Virtually all of these 10 million jobs will be eliminated within 10-15 years
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    an article about autonomous transportation and how disruptive they might be not only for the car and transport industry but for entire economy
Oleg Batluk

Why millennials want to quit their jobs | Reuters - 1 views

  • Sixty percent of millennials, ages 22-32, have changed jobs between one and four times in the last five years, according to State Street Global Advisors
  • it's clear that millennials won't stay with companies for money alone
  • Like many members of her generation, Davis has the requisite side hustles
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  • millennials ages 18-34 make up the largest percentage of working people who look at other job opportunities
  • have chosen not to undertake a task at work because it conflicted with their values
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    60% of millenials regularly change jobs as money is not the ultimate goal
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

These Are The Surprising Jobs You'll Be Doing By The 2030s - 2 views

  • Here are some completely unexpected jobs you've almost certainly never heard of—but likely will soon
  • 10 jobs that are likely to appear within the next 15 years or so, along with the skills and education required
al_semenchenko

The driverless truck is coming, and it's going to automate millions of jobs | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam.
  • the technology would effectively double the output of the U.S. transportation network at 25 percent of the cost.
  • While the efficiency gains are real — too real to pass up — the technology will have tremendous adverse effects as well. There are currently more than 1.6 million Americans working as truck drivers, making it the most common job in 29 states.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

It's no joke - the robots will really take over this time | Technology | The Observer - 1 views

  • Do we seriously believe that an economic system that supports the massive outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries would not jump at the opportunity of replacing expensive white-collar employees with robots that cost about $4 an hour to run, never answer back, don't have unions and are never sick or depressed?
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    If capitalism can outsource low-paid jobs, why can't it replace the middle classes with automatons
Maria Gurova

Meanwhile in the Future: Everybody Is Reviewed in a Reputation Database - 2 views

  • Recently, an app called Peeple got a whole lot of attention for trying to be the Yelp for Humans
  • But what would it be like if we lived in a world where everything you do is subject to a rating doled out by a combination of machines and other people?
  • Michael Fertik, the founder of Reputation.com and the author of the book The Reputation Economy, talks on the episode about all the ways that brands and companies are already compiling your information into a profile that helps them make decisions about you. Linkedin, AirBnB, Uber, they’re all gathering what Fertik calls your “digital exhaust” to learn more about you
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  • So what makes Peeple different from say AirBnB where you rate your tenants? Jeff Hancock, a professor of communications at Standford, says it comes down to turning your interpersonal relationships into transactions.
  • But in 15 or 20 years, all those reputation systems might be combined. And they might totally dictate your life: what jobs you get, what insurance you’re offered, who you date, where you live
  • Fertik predicts that in just five years, companies won’t post jobs, but rather plug in their desires into a database to find the right person. Jobs will come to you, he says. But part of that selection process will probably include parameters outside someone’s direct qualifications
  • If financial success, personal success, housing, food options, all that is tied into this reputation system, the people who have the understanding and the money to make that reputation system work for them will succeed
Oleg Batluk

A Russian video interview service hopes to shake up the HR market | Russia Beyond The H... - 0 views

  • Skillaz
  • HR departments post a vacancy on the platform with questions, and job seekers respond in video format. The service creates a video interview, which the employee can watch at any time and either refuse the candidate or mark the interview as "liked."
  • it provides services not only for employers but also for job seekers
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  • ineffectiveness of traditional hiring methods
  • the job seekers' Instagram
  • service is currently being tested by potential clients
Oleg Batluk

Office Space: Your last status update may cost you a shot at a new job | Reading Eagle ... - 0 views

  • A new survey from OfficeTeam reveals the top social media mistakes that could cost professionals an opportunity when interviewing for a new job
  • Forty-five percent of HR managers agreed that negative, inappropriate or offensive comments are the most common social media faux pas that eliminate candidates from the running
  • the greatest offense is posting or being tagged in inappropriate, risque or questionable photos
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  • a lack of social media activity or presence is the greatest offense
  • no credit is bad credit
  • Social media profiles should be seen like a credit score
  • Candidates should change the way they handle their accounts
  • excess of photos may give the impression of an inflated ego and off-put hiring managers
  • Always remember to untag yourself from any photos that may raise eyebrows
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    Social media profiles are now seen like a credit score by HR specialists making applicants consider changing their social network life
alexbelov

The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
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    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
Vladimir Devyatkin

Surviving the Rise of 'Smart Machines,' the Loss of 'Dream Jobs' and '90% Unemployment' - 0 views

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    Key Issue - How Will Smart Machines Impact Business and IT Function Through the Remainder of This Decade? Digitization Meets the Workforce - Smart Machines Are the Next Major Technology Market Transitional Scenarios - How Smart Machines Will Develop Through 2020 Smart Machines and the Specter of Destructive Creation Societal Crisis Postcrisis, Toward 90% Job Replacement
al_semenchenko

Knightscope releases fleet of autonomous crime fighting security robots - Interesting E... - 2 views

  • The 5 feet, 300 pound scooting robot is stacked with quite the resume of capabilities and because it delivers real-time data to a secure monitored location, it will minimize threats for human security officers that take on these dangerous jobs.
  • this venture gets some backing as security companies are looking for more innovative solutions to counter their turnover rates, some as high as 400%, Knightscope reports.
  • hese autonomous patrol units are doing the jobs that may be too dangerous for people and doing them better, backed with day and night 360-degree video capture, infrared and thermal scanning, proximity sensors, radar for real-time 3D mapping, and optical character recognition, allowing the K5 to never forget a face. Knightscope confirmed though that K5s are NOT intended to replace law enforcement, instead “to help and assist officers, improve response times and keep them out of harm’s way if possible.”
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    Robots assisting police officers in monitoring dangerous areas. Also available for home security.
Maria Gurova

I quantified my baby and wish I could get the time back - 1 views

  • It’s part of an experiment to see if technology can help with the daunting and seemingly Sisyphean tasks of a first time parent, to find out why a growing number of people are turning to gadgets to help with one of life's toughest jobs.
  • Attempting to simplify parenthood with gizmos and apps has perversely made it a lot more complicated. And as for peace of mind, forget it.
  • The concept of the “quantified baby” has been around for some time now, and there’s a large and growing market for smart infant products from anxious or diligent or curious new parents.
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  • But does it all help you to be a better father, or mother, or is it all a massive distraction from the serious business of parenting?
  • While tracking proved useful as a reminder of feedings, and gave an objective insight into longer term sleep patterns, there wasn’t much she could do with the info.
  • It's the same problem quantified self devotees have: what to do with all that data. Unless you're a math or data viz wizard and prepared to take it all incredibly seriously, the numbers that consumer gadgets and apps spew out can be pretty meaningless — even more so when you're dealing with an unpredictable baby.
  • The Mimo and the Owlet are just the tip of the emerging infant tracking iceberg.
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    does using all the tech can offer to monitor your infant health make you a better parent or ease the toughest job in the world. Based on the article - not really 
Oleg Batluk

Алена Владимирская, О мотивации людей к работе - Новости Украины - Новини Укр... - 0 views

  • Для поколения 22-26 лет деньги в работе ценностью не являются
  • Для них главной ценностью в работе является реализация
  • пойми меня кто я и выведи меня туда, где я буду реализован
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    Money is no longer an ultimate job reward for Millennials and X-gen. They consider employer as X-factor talent show to perform and express themselves.
Oleg Batluk

Чтобы прокормить человечество, достаточно работать всего 10% людей на Земле -... - 0 views

  • Образовательные учреждения плохо адаптируются к направлениям развития рынка труда
  • «проклятье родителей». Родители уговаривают детей идти учиться на некогда хлебные должности типа бухгалтера, тем самым программируя молодежь на безработицу через 10-15 лет
  • отсутствия профориентации
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  • Эксперт фиксирует рост числа сдающих ЕГЭ по обществознанию:
  • Такое количество гуманитариев сейчас на рынке не востребовано
  • в стране кризис прогнозирования
  • очти ни одна компания не может сказать, какие именно специалисты будут ей нужны через 5-10 лет.
  • 14% от опрошенных экономически активных россиян полагают, что перспективная профессия будущего — это IT и инженеры
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    Russian education has issues with adaptaion to the new jobs requiremts in the post soviet system of dead professional orientaion
alexbelov

Bank layoffs are coming due to Uberisation of the industry - Business Insider - 2 views

  • Banks are quickly approaching their "automation tipping point," and they could soon reduce headcount by as much as 30%.
  • "Banks' Uber moment will mean a disintermediation of bank branches rather than the banks themselves
  • it will mean the shift to mobile distribution being the main channel of interaction between customers and the bank
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  • The job cuts Citi is describing would add up to more than 1.8 million job losses from current levels in the banking sector in the US and Europe over the next 10 years.
  • As more transactions are automated and done on a mobile phone, we believe there will be a rebalancing of staff from transaction-based roles to advisory-based roles
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    Clients do transactions using their mobile phones now which allows banks to massively reduce their staff.
Oleg Batluk

UBC students win $180,000 playing eSport League of Legends - 0 views

  • UBC become arguably the top eSports schools in North America
  • What started as a casual club fueled by passion for the game quickly became a top competitive team in North America. Now the team’s members are being rewarded for all their practice with about $30,000 each thanks to their NACC victory
  • “I would play anywhere from 4-8 hours a day, and that’s just individual. Every weekend [the team] would play around 12 hours, six on Saturday and six on Sunday. Essentially a full-time job, I would say in my first two to three years of university I probably played 30-40 hours a week
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  • The question asked now for these high-level eSports players is the same as any athlete: what’s next
  • With eSports, you practice as a team, you have to spend just as many hours as a professional athlete.
  • ou have to play on a big stage in front of a lot of people. It’s really stressful
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    Cybersportsman has to spend siginificant time of his life to be successful with the same level of stress as profeccionals from physical sports have
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