Automation- Is It Road Way To Unemployment?

Think for a while… How the world of today could be without technology? It is even very horrible to imagine after experiencing all the comforts from the fruits of technology.Well, it has become the great means of recognition of a country like USA all over the world. The impact of technology has been greatly observed after the actual role play of ‘Automation’.Right from the invention of steam engine, there awoke a fear in labors of losing their jobs.Great personalities like Robert Kennedy whose quotes have always been great inspirational even doubted that- “Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?”

Well, being a politician his concern to his people regarding threat of unemployment is common. But in our opinion, automation is providing still more great opportunities to people rather than increasing unemployment.The only question is, whether the people having skills? So, skills impacts…This can be clearly understood from below.

Though there are many usual cases which make us feel that automation is replacing workers.We can take an example how the washing machine replaces the maid at home. But when comes to an industry, the new machines can only do limited things but they can do it inhigh volume and all day long.They never need breaks or need vacations.So long as the work to be done can be completely defined in a simple enough way that a machine can do it the machines will do it better and for less cost than low skilled people.

There is a famous saying that -“No one in this world is perfect”.We the human beings created by the god have defects then how can we say that the things made by the human beings will be damn perfect!The machines require attention from time to time.Let’s again take the example of washing machine. Think what will you do if the same washing machine may struck and stop working? Again you need to take the help of operator’s service to repair it accordingly. Machines are very bad at communicating with customers and a skilled human is needed to deal with many of the problems which can arise. So as to overcome the needs of machine such as programming and repairs, a skilled human is needed.

So at last we can conclude that, increased automation means many unskilled workers will be replaced by the machines but many more people will be needed to perform the higher skilled tasks that arise because the machines are being used.Thus, skilled people survive. By this we can understand how the development in the technology has ease of opportunities for skilled people. So skills really matters. Even the further emergence of new automation will definitely bring many creative jobs for us in future.So, being tomorrow’s job gainers, we must be very conscious of technology and enhance the technical skills to survive in the World of automation.