With a growing amount of companies automating their processes, fears that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace jobs are only increasing. However, many analysts and market experts say that technology isn’t a substitute for people, it’s an enhancement that allows us all to do our jobs better. But just as in the past machinery replaced earlier jobs in farming and for instance more recently the spinning jenny replaced weavers, buttons displaced elevator operators, and the Internet drove travel agencies out of business.
Every industrial revolution is as much a story of how we organize work as it is of technological invention. Steam engines and stopwatches had been around for decades before Frederick Taylor, the original optimiser, used them to develop the modern factory.
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