If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and the will to make a better future!

“Could a machine do your job?” ask Michael Chui, James Manyika, and Mehdi Miremadi in a recent McKinsey Quarterly article, Where Machines Could Replace Humans and Where They Can’t Yet. The authors try to put the current worries about this question in perspective:

“As automation technologies such as machine learning and robotics play an increasingly great role in everyday life, their potential effect on the workplace has, unsurprisingly, become a major focus of research and public concern. The discussion tends toward a Manichean guessing game: which jobs will or won’t be replaced by machines?

In fact, as our research has begun to show, the story is more nuanced. While automation will eliminate very few occupations entirely in the next decade, it will affect portions of almost all jobs to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the type of work they entail.”

Source: Don’t Replace People. Augment Them. — What’s The Future of Work? — Medium