Humans Need Not Apply

As civilization and industry has advanced, so has the the march of increasingly efficient methods of production. In doing so, progress has led to the decreased demand for low-skill, labor-intensive jobs. This advancement, such as is the case with most technology, is in part due to older electronics becoming less expensive to manufacture and more widespread as a result. These developments in the increased computational intellect of machines sets the modern world on a course where they will replace the lower skill jobs held by scores of the members of the working class. This transition is a reality, not a part of the future, as the latest wave has slowly been integrated, including self driving cars and learning robots that, while slower than a human at a comparable task, are a fraction of the cost in terms of upkeep. So-called “white-collar” work is affected, becoming replaced by software capable of performing their tasks. Automation engineers are at the forefront of this field, developing software that is capable of self-learning and at a less expensive cost. Upper-level employment can experience a change, as large amounts of paperwork can be sorted and analyzed via new, advanced programs. Automated workers only would need to make few mistakes than human counterparts. Robots are even able to create their own art. Unemployment rates may rise to potentially catastrophic levels, but technology and automation marches on.

Overall, “Humans Need Not Apply” takes a serious, informed view into the history, trends, and future outcomes of civilization’s development of better means of production, service, transportation, and the automation thereof. The observation as to the trend of society in terms of the eventual (near) obsolescence of many labor-intensive occupations is completely and fully accurate. Electronics have a tendency to begin as complex and inefficient, but over time, they become simpler, smaller, more efficient; eventually, they

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