While containing risks, the technology could be, when viewed correctly, the ideal tool to make existing companies more challenging, more entrepreneurial. This is at least the opinion of most participants in the third of ‘Barcelona Challengers Conferences’ (BCC), an initiative that aims to make our world a better place to live. With fewer wars, respectful of equality between men and women, with technology as development factor and welfare.
After such topics as conflict resolution and leadership in the female, it was about the impact of technology in the labor market that the ‘Barcelona Challengers Conferences’ came to an end in the capital of Catalonia, an effort promoted by Japanese car manufacturer Mazda, official partner of the Nobel Peace Prize with the aim of finding new ways able to secure a better future for today’s societies.
This Wednesday and Thursday, the ‘Mazda Space’ , home of the Hiroshima mark in the Condal City, the central theme of a conference that was attended by an audience of about 150 people was the impact of technology on the labor market and how the economy itself works. With the Nobel Peace Prize 1997, the American Jody Williams to be particularly critical not only to the automation of production, to the detriment of the use of hand-intensive human, but mainly with the development of so-called killer robots by military.
Talking about the automation of production processes to replace man, activist and co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Mines ( International Campaign to Ban Landmines – ICBL ) found that ‘whenever a company uses technology at the expense of labor-work human, is also destroying their own business “, since, with the workers’ dismissal, the purchasing power decreases and “machines do not buy these products’.
More worrying still, for the US, it is to use the military are doing robotics, using advances in technology to create capable machines to act as soldiers and killing people. Something that takes, “scares me more than any nuclear war” as it is to give a machine «the power to decide, for example, who is or is not a terrorist.”
To such a change, “it is necessary that people do not only indignant but participate, be involved in the change ‘, this being also” the root activism: act, act, act and act! Do not just say that we are concerned with something like, for example, the current crisis of refugees towards Europe; It must act, we become involved in resolving the issue. There is no excuse! “.
Beware the input of technology in the labor market also calls on Dr. Guy Standing, professor of Oriental and African Studies at London University, and author of the book ‘ The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class’. For whom the lack of vision and the sole and exclusive concern with the profit brought about by globalization and technological innovation has led to the emergence of a new social class, the poor, marked by economic uncertainty.
“We are at the beginning of a huge global transformation “, defends this university professor, that the modern world vice« a distribution crisis [of wealth], not jobs’, the result of “an increase in productivity, which, contrary to what happened there 20 or 30 years has led to a decline in wages. ” As well as the growing number of precarious workers, which, according to Guy Standing, justify ever greater attention by governments, so to them guaranteed greater stability, security or even a minimum income.
Opinion and most positive transformations that currently passes the labor market has, however, Pistono Frederico, social entrepreneur, hacktivist and author of the bestselling ‘Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK: How to Survive the Economic and collpase be Happy ‘(2012). Which, although believing that by automating many professions (drivers, accountants or even journalists …) will disappear, also states that it is using the same technology that many of the current problems that humanity is facing (such as, for example , climate change) can be solved.
“Recent studies conclude that between 45-47% of the professions that have today will be automated in the next 20 years, thus eliminating human intervention,” says the CEO the Konoz, start-up responsible for the organization of educational videos on YouTube. Adding that “the current reality shows that new companies need less and less people», and even in terms of the validity of the skills these days, “do not last more than five years.”
predicting the disappearance of over a thousand million jobs “due to the use of technology and automation,” Pistono, who has attended the Singularity University, an institution located at the NASA Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, also ensures that it is also through technology that can improve things. Becoming «less centered on consumption”, “less individualistic”, walking towards what he calls “Star Trek Economy” – “an economy where money is not the most important, but the skills and abilities that each person has”. And that should undergo a ‘permanent evolution “through” training remains’ made’ not only in schools and universities. “
Finally, to Alex Bandar, software engineer and CEO of Columbus Idea Foundry , innovation space in various sectors located in the US state of Ohio, Technology, more than a danger, should be seen as a tool that can make anyone an inventor and an entrepreneur, that being what it designates as ‘ maker movement ‘, an extension of the culture “Do It Yourself”, will eventually transform the economy for the better and inspire individuals to make themselves their reality.
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