Beyonce once told us in a song, "What happens when girls run the world?"
This time, however, the question is, What will happen when robots run the world? Does scenes from The Terminator: Rise of the Machines run through your mind?
If this happens, is there any way that humans can fight and resist this change? One thing is for sure though, a few people will be spared from their jobs as this robot evolution continues.
In Carlton, Barnsley, it was just another day for the Premier Foods factory workers. A number of the factory's newest machine are lined up as they are being prepared to pack hundreds of boxes of Mr. Kipling's cakes. For now, it's Angel slices but tomorrow, it can be caramel. But over time, it was just a routine of picking, placing and moving.
Humans are basically needed only for maintaining the performance of these machines. It is evident indeed that Automation has taken over Britain's factories. Are humans therefore just for heaping scrap?
Robots are taking over
Earlier this month, Merrill Lynch from the Bank of America already released statements with regards to the Automation of all manufacturing tasks within just a decade.
As per The Telegraph, The International Federation of Robotics claimed that the number of machineries used in factories worldwide has already increased last year and will even rise in the coming years not just in manufacturing.
In Nagasaki, Japan, the Henn-na hotel which opened this summer, was known to be the world's first establishment to be employed by humanoid robots.
This technological advancement, as John Maynard anticipates it, will not only bring abundance and leisure, but also a threat to what he calls "technological unemployment". More than just being mindless and doing the same jobs over and over again, these computers can also perform complex tasks without an additional cost to it.
