Will you lose your job due to Automation?
If you are
an engineer, technician or scientist is there a risk of losing your job do to
automation? Likely not, as automation is actually attributed to the efforts of
technical personnel. I am reminded that back in the 1980s while I was employed
as an engineer at Sundstrand Fluid Handling, the so-called Data Processing
main-frame personnel worried about their careers. Why, because they feared that
if the engineers each had a personnel computer there would be no DP folks
required. But surprisingly, the opposite
was true and those DP people morphed into what we now refer to as the IT
department that we can’t survive without. And let’s not forget that computers
were predicted to eliminate paper.
As I
indicated in my previous blog post, technical personnel have been involved with
many aspects of automation for decades. But now, the media’s latest rants
sensationalize automation as if the “Robot” is some sort of villain. Here is an
example of a catchy headline: The Robots
are coming (for your job). I guess the media is not focused on global
warming any longer due to the so-called “warming pause”.
