Adapt to the drastic, blunt and radical changes that the new technologies and robotics could practice in any area, it will never be simple or easy to solve.
The alterations and effects that are generated from this type of phenomenon can erupt without compassion in a specific environment and the bewilderment can become immediate.
The influence of such an event has the ability to be deployed over many areas of human existence. The world of work (companies and workers) is an example of this, at the same time its repercussion will influence the personal and family economy, also of countries and regions.
It is undoubtedly already a today's business, with potential for affect a large part of society tomorrow.
Digitization of employment, disruptive technology, robotization: These are some terms in relation to this problem in which reflection becomes imperative.
The human being, a product of his intrinsic creativity, has been able throughout history to take giant leaps in discoveries and technology, but between leaps and bounds he has to define and take care of his level of performance in detail, since there tends to be a lot of strength and potential accumulated in its findings and advances, which could become a boomerang that ends up damaging its own author.
Just to mention nuclear energy and all the positive and destructive effect it has had on the planet, and since it is a human invention the ability to exploit it; is enough to alert that reflective strategy it will have to be accompanied by progress, so as not to lose out or ultimately strongly affected.
We approach this article with a title that refers to the new technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence y effects on employment that are already being deployed, but whose incidence will be progressively enhanced with each passing year.
Let's analyze the subject from some interesting edges, which appear with perhaps apparently contradictory conclusions, and we can visualize and reason about how it affects us, at what level, advantages - disadvantages and if we manage to balance its positive and negative effects, at least thought about the way the matter is approached today.
Disruptive technologies and job creation
All the disruptive technologies, also named disruptive innovations, are those technologies and innovations that cause large or small modifications, with the tendency to disappear or to make mechanisms, devices and products out of date.
In this way, it is possible to compete effectively against the dominant technologies at a given moment, to establish and consolidate in a market.
In disruptive innovations, if analyzed in the short term, it could be argued that there is a high probability that it will occur an increase in unemployment in specific sectors. Although it is necessary to state, that considering the long term, when there is an increase in productivity, jobs could be created.
Robots and artificial intelligence will impact society and employment
Artificial intelligence and robotics will be the next leap that humanity will give, only comparable to the industrial revolutions that changed the world at the time.
In dealing with the topic of robots and artificial intelligence, we began to approach the potential hazards and forces, that can go hand in hand with human inventions.
Possibly we are approaching a future where in society, having a job in itself will not make sense to assess whether a person has the right to eat. It is said that very possibly, the lack of work becomes consistent on the planet for these reasons mentioned.
Forrester, a market research firm, has said that probably about 25 million jobs could disappear in ten years, product to technological advances.
When robots and artificial intelligence arrive, and they arrive seriously, with all the force and repercussion that they will have on the economy, society and employment; then there will be nothing left but to rethink matters of this kind, if it was not done in advance.
Many see the future positively, and they say that there will be nothing left but to adapt and reinvent itself on technology.
It is smart to approach these scenarios with enough information. Either way, year after year they will become more everyday in our lives this type of technology, and the assimilation process will grow.
When the changes come, many issues related to taxation, the economy and employment. The impact of artificial intelligence on society will be very strong.
Some experts assure that robots they will not be substituting jobs for themselves. That is, they will not be thought or designed for this purpose, but rather for substitute tasks.
The focus will be to be able to supplant those tasks or repetitive activities or those that require great precision, a question that technology would be able to provide.
It does not necessarily have to be bad, but be careful!
When the digitalization engages in work, efficiency and productivity levels can be increased considerably, and also jobs may increase.
It is said that if Spain invests enough in this until 2020, 250 new jobs could be generated each year. This has been said by the CEOE (Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations).
Other experts are of the opinion, that estimates of this type are too optimistic. They agree that it is correct that technological innovations are capable of generating wealth and employment, but not in such a short time.
Beyond this even, there is the opinion that not precisely the existence of a more technological and digital country will produce more employment, If not the opposite.
Companies that make significant investments in digitization and latest technologies will have high productivity, but at the same time they will need fewer workers.
Other experts argue that digitization and the advance in technology in an accentuated way are not precisely what has to lead society to a situation of unemployment that is constantly increasing.
If productivity increases, there will be a greater global volume of wealth, producing in this way new demands and other jobs in dissimilar activities.
There is another problem and it is related to the fact that jobs that have an important relationship with digital technologies will require a adequate creative ability and further enough training.
Those who have not been involved with this type of technology will require a certain period of time to be able to use them. These advances will have to be accompanied by social work and a strong investment in citizens.
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The analysis is complicated when the high value that technology and all the related innovation in this environment bring to products is thoroughly analyzed, allowing quality and differentiation of excellence.
The tech sector could create jobs
Not a few specialists argue that the problems of employment and its environment, generate in themselves changes that are constantly executed in different scenarios. On the one hand jobs fall due to crisis in different countries, but at the same time there are initiatives create jobs that did not exist before.
The technology and R & D & i (research, development and innovation) sector has great potential to generate jobs. For a country to develop and do so in an impetuous way, it needs to produce scientific and technological knowledge, just as its companies are strongly projected in R + D + i. Digital transformation will have a lot to do with it.
All efforts that countries make to promote technology and investment in innovation and development, it will favor the creation of jobs. Examples are those related to biotechnology, ICT (information and communication technologies) and e-commerce.
In Spain, It has already been said by experts that the technology sector it will be one of those that will generate more jobs in the short term.
Reaction time and adaptation to change Will it give us time?
Countries of the world have experienced job extinctions at specific times in their history. The world economy has undergone radical transitions as has been the movement from a rural economy to an Industrial one.
In the USA for example, this event was observed in the period (1870-1970) with a duration of 100 years. At that moment they vanished near the 90 percent of jobs from rural areas.
In this same country and in the stage between 1950 - 2010, as a result of technological advance, approximately 75% of jobs in factories.
One of the consequences seen directly related to this phenomenon was the emergence of a “service economy”. Even then, the largest bulk of jobs came from the service sector and not from the productive sector.
Our situation today becomes more complex, because such a long adaptation period is not feasible like the one counted in the examples mentioned, 60 or 100 years.
It will be necessary to be able to adapt in 10 or 15, otherwise we could find ourselves in big trouble, quite possibly facing the biggest unemployment crisis of all time.
We have seen that not all opinions are similar, that the problem is not simple, and that the planet and society are on a course towards this phenomenon, already considered inevitably.
Social and political forces, plus the business field, they should be coordinated for this jump to be coherent and the effects on employment are minimized, managing to adapt to the change that is coming, in the best and most intelligent way possible.