{"id":157034,"date":"2023-02-04T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/what-can-past-technological-revolutions-tell-us-about-today"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:25:27","slug":"what-can-past-technological-revolutions-tell-us-about-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/what-can-past-technological-revolutions-tell-us-about-today","title":{"rendered":"What Can Past Technological Revolutions Tell Us About Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-can-past-technological-revolutions-tell-us-about-today.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the furor around robots taking our jobs has largely died down in recent years (not least due to the lack of any real evidence that it\u2019s happening), it remains inevitable that the introduction of new technologies will cause disruption in the labor market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout history the introduction of new technologies has had an inevitable impact on the labour market, whether through displacing jobs, creating new ones, or significantly altering those that already exist,\u201d Alexander Dick, Executive Chairman of cloud technology firm VeUP says.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Previous technological revolutions significantly disrupted the labor market. What lessons can we learn about who and how that disruption played out to prevent the same happening today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the furor around robots taking our jobs has largely died down in recent years (not least due to the lack of any real evidence that it\u2019s happening), it remains inevitable that the introduction of new technologies will cause disruption in the labor market. \u201cThroughout history the introduction of new technologies has had an inevitable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}