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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs

Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs. A great piece by Kevin Kelly.

How Robots will take over our jobs

How Robots will take over our jobs

This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You’ll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. Ninety percent of your coworkers will be unseen machines. Most of what you do will not be possible without them. And there will be a blurry line between what you do and what they do. You might no longer think of it as a job, at least at first, because anything that seems like drudgery will be done by robots.

We need to let robots take over. They will do jobs we have been doing, and do them much better than we can. They will do jobs we can’t do at all. They will do jobs we never imagined even needed to be done. And they will help us discover new jobs for ourselves, new tasks that expand who we are. They will let us focus on becoming more human than we were.

Let the robots take the jobs, and let them help us dream up new work that matters.

Documentary about the future of China’s economy

Because I going on a study trip to Hong Kong in April and May. I try to prepare myself a little bit by reading articles about China and doing business in China. Yesterday I found out that there was a documentary on the Dutch television about China’s economy, but I didn’t had the time to watch it. So I did it today.

China redefines economic laws as we know it. Looking at the figures on the Chinese economic we could believe there will be no end. But how much strain is there in that growth? According to Western standards there isn’t any left. But China is going to prove that it will creates its own economic rules with the hinterland and its huge domestic market.

A construction worker, a car salesman and a real estate magnate will tell their own dreams and their belief in the economic miracle. People with very different positions on the economic ladder, but with one common ambition: come up higher. As archetypes of the developmental stages of the Chinese economy, they will give a face to the miracle of unprecedented rapid growth.

Chinese economists and commentators have also come to the floor, including Andy Xie. They see a real estate bubble in the making and explain when and how they might burst apart. But they do not fear for the long-term consequences of this bubble. The burst will hurt and will require to reform, but the economic downturn will be short-lived.

A Chinese perspective on the limits of growth.
Watch the documentary about the future of China’s economy →