Guess what? More than likely, your job will soon be eliminated. Maybe not necessarily within the time that you are working that job, but in the future, most jobs will be obsolete. Technology is just continuing to grow at an exponential rate and computers are taking over jobs. Here are some of the jobs that, in my opinion, will never become obsolete:
- IT people. All the technology we keep using will always break and need fixing. This is probably the most promising of all future careers.
- ID people. Industrial designers, that is. People are going to keep creating stuff, and are going to keep needing people to help them figure out how to make it.
- Business managers. For some reason, Americans have this weird hierarchy obsession, and there always has to be a boss of a boss of a boss’s boss. That is just a part of business politics that I don’t think is going away anytime soon.
- Celebrities. Come on, you really think people will stop over-caring about what is going on with Britney Spears? No way. It is only going to get worse. And it is very easy to become a celebrity now. Just watch out for the next latest reality TV filming in your local area.
- Psychiatrists. Everyone loves psychiatrists, and everyone wants to be one. They give you legal drugs that make you feel good, and they tell you that all your worries are okay and normal because you are a tortured soul ever since childhood. I think about 45% of the people I have ever met and asked what they are majoring in say psychology. Good thing most everyone in the world is crazy.
- Pharmaceutical people. Maybe I am wrong about this one, but it seems to me that the drug industry has the world by its balls. And people love their drugs. People trust drugs more than they trust doctors – which is why doctors isn’t on this list. This will be the only industry that seems to somehow still run on brain dead human labor in auto-pilot mode.
I think the future is pretty bleak as far as jobs go, and this recession is only the beginning. I think it will be full of humungous businesses and self-employed entrepreneurs. Most people will do work involving technology or human feel-good stuff. There won’t be much that doesn’t involve comfort or convenience. Soon, computers will take all that over. If you don’t have REAL talent, REAL skills (answering phones is not a skill) or REAL strong ideas, you will be swallowed up into the pit of dumb consumers who contribute nothing. This is how humans will need to evolve in order to survive the artificial intelligence era. We will simply need to become more intelligent.
I keep finding myself having to make the distinction between my idealized notions and reality, with job structure always being an overbearing epitome of reality. One can only speculate on the true state of technology with only the advancements that make business sense getting a mainstream introduction. As 'jobs' phase into obsolescence, I can only hope that people take on the 'REAL' responsibilities you refer to.
ReplyDeleteArtificial intelligence has, to a large extent, already been achieved. A group called Imagination Engines Inc. has been making strides in artificial neuro-network cognition for decades, which they disclose as having aided work on everything from consumer design to aerospace engineering.
To couple this technological processing capacity with openly humanitarian effort could be an evolution in intelligence, but might have to fall into the category of idealized notion.
artificial neuro-network cognition? hmm... sounds inriguing... maybe I am getting into the wrong field of expertise... Surely human resources will also eventually become obsolete. I DID actually consider instead, going into theoretical physics. Surely that will never end unless we all discover the meaning of life and all agree that it all started with a big boom. I really want to learn more about a thing called quantum biocommunication technology. Can you guess what it is??! =D It's exciting!
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