Where is automation taking us?

I am working with Sunil Prashara of PMI on a book about Citizen Development. Automation, low code and no-code. A movement for good. Enabling changemakers. You can find out about it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-AkTUBjtes&feature=youtu.be

The shallows

It does raise a few questions. I am a huge fan of Nicholas Carr. “The shallows” is a classic that will make you sit up and think. The future of our mind is at stake. This paragraph is from “The Shallows”, The Net’s cacophony of stimuli short-circuits both conscious and unconscious thought, preventing our minds from thinking either deeply or creatively. Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again”.

The Class Cage

Hence “Glass Cage: Where Automation is Taking Us”. A continuation of that warning. This time about what automation is doing to us. A version of “Technology versus humanity”. There is no question about it. Darwin and evolution cannot compete with Moore’s law. If a robot or computer can work faster, cheaper, or better than its human counterpart, the robot will get the job. A company doesn’t have to worry about labour costs if it’s not employing labourers.