{"id":81226,"date":"2018-08-02T02:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/an-investor-perspective-how-to-prepare-society-for-an-automated-future"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:00:56","slug":"an-investor-perspective-how-to-prepare-society-for-an-automated-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/an-investor-perspective-how-to-prepare-society-for-an-automated-future","title":{"rendered":"An Investor Perspective: How To Prepare Society For An Automated Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-investor-perspective-how-to-prepare-society-for-an-automated-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are on the verge of a massive disruption,\u201d Ford told me recently. \u201cWe see stagnant wages, and we see an erosion in the quality of the jobs. A lot of solid middle-class jobs are disappearing, and that alone has been remarkably disruptive\u2026 This is a big deal and I think it\u2019s going to get get vastly bigger, and I do think that this is a subject everyone should be a bit concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To put it bluntly: Once cars and trucks become automated, what will taxi and truck drivers do for work? Same with factory workers, fast food employees, retail clerks, and millions of other low-skill jobs that could theoretically be phased out entirely with robotics. This isn\u2019t some sci-fi future; one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2017\/11\/29\/automation-could-kill-73-million-u-s-jobs-2030\/899878001\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2017\/11\/29\/automation-could-kill-73-million-u-s-jobs-2030\/899878001\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">report<\/a> compiled recently by the McKinsey Global Institute says that advances in AI, automation and robotics will displace between 39 and 73 million jobs by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aalsin\/2018\/07\/30\/an-investor-perspective-how-to-prepare-society-for-an-automated-future-qa-with-martin-ford\/#58ae1e617d31\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aalsin\/2018\/07\/30\/an-investor-p...ae1e617d31<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think we are on the verge of a massive disruption,\u201d Ford told me recently. \u201cWe see stagnant wages, and we see an erosion in the quality of the jobs. A lot of solid middle-class jobs are disappearing, and that alone has been remarkably disruptive\u2026 This is a big deal and I think it\u2019s going [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81327,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81226\/revisions\/81327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}