The Future Of Work

Is the Rise of the Machines – A Curse or a blessing?Show more

Our world is going digital at warp speed and exponential technologies are promising the birth of an entirely new economy. Technologies including robotics, A.I., 3D printing, Augmented reality, Internet of Things (IOT) and blockchain are already impacting our world more than many people realise. As these advances move from the edges into the mainstream, the impact is going to trigger seismic shifts in business and in the way we work. And our personal lives are likely to totally transform in ways that we haven’t even considered yet.

Technology is going to automate many tasks that aren’t worth our human attention. We know that skills that can be digitised and automated are going to become a commodity, but the flip side of that means what can’t be digitised and automated will increase in value.

As technology automates many 'hard skills', businesses will become financially motivated to focus on the development of 'soft skills' instead. That will be the big differentiator when everything else has reached maximum efficiency. The truly human qualities such as emotion, ethics, empathy, creativity are much more difficult to automate. That’s why they will increase so considerably in value.

Being who you really are and living that to the full is the way to create true happiness in the long term. So, when machines have automated many of our deficiency needs, we will focus on our growth needs, and our work will become a reflection of that. It’s time to begin the purpose revolution.